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Aleksandr Medvedkin
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🎂 March 8, 1900📍 Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]🕯️ February 19, 1989 · Age 88
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.
BODY OF WORK
Aleksandr Medvedkin's Filmography
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The Silence of Pelešjan
2011⭐ 5.8
as Self (archive footage)
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The Last Bolshevik
1994⭐ 7.6
as Self (archive footage)
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Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
1984
as Self
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No Poster
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Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
1979
as Self
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Caution! Maoism!
1976
as Narrator
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The Train Rolls On
1971⭐ 6.6
as Himself
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No Poster
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Stop Thief!
1930⭐ 10.0
as Blundering Tractor Driver