Director
Aleksandr Medvedkin
March 8, 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.
Often works with
Mikhail Rumyantsev
2 titles together
The New Moscow, The New Moscow
Yelena Anufriyeva
2 titles together
The New Moscow, The Miracle Worker
Lidiya Smirnova
2 titles together
The New Moscow, We Await Your Victorious Return
Mariya Shlenskaya
2 titles together
The Miracle Worker, Liberated Earth
Inna Fyodorova
2 titles together
The Miracle Worker, We Await Your Victorious Return
Full filmography · 14
Caution! Maoism!
as Narrator and Director and Writer
1976
Night over China
Writer and Director
1971The Letter to a Chinese Friend
Director and Writer
1969
An Unquiet Spring
Director and Writer
1956
Liberated Earth
Director
1946
We Await Your Victorious Return
Director and Writer
1941
The New Moscow
Director
19385.8
The Miracle Worker
Director and Writer
1936
Happiness
Director and Writer
19355.7The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
Director
1933
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
Director
1932
Duren, You're a Fool!
Director and Writer
1931