Aleksandr Medvedkin

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Personal Info

gender

Male

birthday

March 8, 1900

died

February 19, 1989

place of birth

Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]

also known as

Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine · Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin · A. Medvedkin · А. Медведкин

total credits

5 movies

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.

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