Director
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Born 1900 · Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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.
Directed
An Unquiet Spring
Director · 1956
Stop Thief!
Director · 1930
Happiness
Director · 1935
Liberated Earth
Director · 1946
The New Moscow
Director · 1938
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
Director · 1933
The Miracle Worker
Director · 1936
We Await Your Victorious Return
Director · 1941
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
Director · 1969
Law of Baseness
Director · 1962
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Director · 1984
First Spring
Director · 1954
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Director · 1979
Night over China
Director · 1971
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
Director · 1977
Caution! Maoism!
Director · 1976
Watch Your Health
Director · 1929
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
Director · 1932
Acting
The Last Bolshevik
Self (archive footage) · 1994
Stop Thief!
Blundering Tractor Driver · 1930
The Train Rolls On
Himself · 1971
The Silence of Pelešjan
Self (archive footage) · 2011
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Self · 1984
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Self · 1979
Caution! Maoism!
Narrator · 1976
Writing
An Unquiet Spring
Writer · 1956
Happiness
Writer · 1935
The New Moscow
Screenplay · 1938
The Miracle Worker
Writer · 1936
We Await Your Victorious Return
Writer · 1941
Ambulance
Screenplay · 1949
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
Writer · 1969
Law of Baseness
Writer · 1962
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Writer · 1984
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Writer · 1979
Night over China
Writer · 1971
Caution! Maoism!
Writer · 1976