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Aleksandr 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). 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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Directing

1929

[ ] Watch Your Health (Director)

1930

[ ] Stop Thief! (Director)

1932

[ ] Kinopoezd - Cinetrain (Director)

1933

[ ] The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon (Director)

1935

[ ] Happiness (Director)

1936

[ ] The Miracle Worker (Director)

1938

[ ] The New Moscow (Director)

1939

[ ] Blossoming Youth (Director)

1941

[ ] We Await Your Victorious Return (Director)

1946

[ ] Liberated Earth (Director)

1954

[ ] First Spring (Director)

1956

[ ] An Unquiet Spring (Director)

1962

[ ] Law of Baseness (Director)

1969

[ ] The Letter to a Chinese Friend (Director)

1971

[ ] Night over China (Director)

1976

[ ] Caution! Maoism! (Director)

1977

[ ] Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind (Director)

1979

[ ] Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (Director)

1984

[ ] Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (Director)

Writing

1935

[ ] Happiness (Writer)

1936

[ ] The Miracle Worker (Writer)

1938

[ ] The New Moscow (Screenplay)

1941

[ ] We Await Your Victorious Return (Writer)

1949

[ ] Ambulance (Screenplay)

1956

[ ] An Unquiet Spring (Writer)

1962

[ ] Law of Baseness (Writer)

1969

[ ] The Letter to a Chinese Friend (Writer)

1971

[ ] Night over China (Writer)

1976

[ ] Caution! Maoism! (Writer)

1979

[ ] Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (Writer)

1984

[ ] Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (Writer)

Production

1932

[ ] Gazeta #4 (Producer)
[ ] How's Life, Comrade Miner? (Producer)
[ ] Conveyor (Producer)

Actor

1930

[ ] Stop Thief! (Blundering Tractor Driver)

1971

[ ] The Train Rolls On (Himself)

1976

[ ] Caution! Maoism! (Narrator)

1979

[ ] Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (Self)

1984

[ ] Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (Self)

1994

[ ] The Last Bolshevik (Self (archive footage))

2011

[ ] The Silence of Pelešjan (Self (archive footage))