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.

Cast

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Self
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Self
The Last Bolshevik
Self (archive footage)
Stop Thief!
Blundering Tractor Driver
The Train Rolls On
Himself
The Silence of Pelešjan
Self (archive footage)
Caution! Maoism!
Narrator

Crew

Ambulance
Screenplay
Happiness
Director, Writer
Night over China
Writer, Director
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
Director
The New Moscow
Director, Screenplay
The Miracle Worker
Director, Writer
Watch Your Health
Director
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
Director, Writer
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
Director
Law of Baseness
Director, Writer
Blossoming Youth
Director
Liberated Earth
Director
Gazeta #4
Producer
How's Life, Comrade Miner?
Producer
Stop Thief!
Director
We Await Your Victorious Return
Director, Writer
An Unquiet Spring
Director, Writer
First Spring
Director
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
Director
Caution! Maoism!
Director, Writer
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Director, Writer
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Director, Writer
Conveyor
Producer