About
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.
Filmography
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man1984 · Writer, Director
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder1979 · Director, Writer
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind1977 · Director
Caution! Maoism!1976 · Director, Writer
Night over China1971 · Writer, Director
The Letter to a Chinese Friend1969 · Director, Writer
Law of Baseness1962 · Director, Writer
An Unquiet Spring1956 · Director, Writer
First Spring1954 · Director
Slava trudu1951 · Director
Ambulance1949 · Screenplay
Liberated Earth1946 · Director
We Await Your Victorious Return1941 · Director, Writer
Blossoming Youth1939 · Director
The New Moscow1938 · Director, Screenplay
The Miracle Worker1936 · Director, Writer
Happiness1935 · Director, Writer
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon1933 · Director
Gazeta #41932 · Producer
How's Life, Comrade Miner?1932 · Producer