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Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
March 8, 1900
Died
February 19, 1989
Place of Birth
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also Known As
- Александр Медведкин
- Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine
- Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin
Aleksandr Medvedkin
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Biography
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin 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.
Known For
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Self (archive footage)
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011
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Self (archive footage)
The Last Bolshevik
1993
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Self
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984
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Self
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979
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Narrator
Caution! Maoism!
1976
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Himself
The Train Rolls On
1973
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Blundering Tractor Driver
Stop Thief!
1930
Credits
The Silence of Pelešjan
as Self (archive footage)
2011
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The Last Bolshevik
as Self (archive footage)
1993
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Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
as Self
1984
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Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
as Self
1979
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Caution! Maoism!
as Narrator
1976
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The Train Rolls On
as Himself
1973
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Stop Thief!
as Blundering Tractor Driver
1930
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