Aleksandr Medvedkin
Birthday
1900/03/08
Day of death
1989/02/19 (89 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also know as
Александр Медведкин, Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine , Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin
Biography
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin (Russian: Александр Иванович Медведкин; 24 February 1900 – 20 February 1989) was a Soviet Russian film director, best known for his 1935 film Happiness. His life and art are the subject of Chris Marker's documentary films, The Train Rolls On (1971) and The Last Bolshevik (1992). He travelled around Russia in his Kinopoezd, a film-train, in which he carried film equipment and shot movies in Kolkhozy, which he would then screen there.
Acting
(1984) Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
as Self
(1979) Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
as Self
(1993) The Last Bolshevik
as Self (archive footage)
(1930) Stop Thief!
as Blundering Tractor Driver
(1973) The Train Rolls On
as Himself
(2011) The Silence of Pelešjan
as Self (archive footage)