Aleksandr Medvedkin

Date of birth

08 Mar 1900

127 years ago at Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Also Known As

Александр Медведкин
Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine
Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin

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).

Biography

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.

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