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Aleksandr Medvedkin
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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…
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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
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2011
The Silence of Pelešjan
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1994
The Last Bolshevik
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1984
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
Movie Self
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1979
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder
Movie Self
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1977
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind
Movie Director
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1976
Caution! Maoism!
Movie Narrator
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1972
The Sorrows of Young Gerkulesov
Movie Writer
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1971
The Train Rolls On
Movie Himself
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1971
Night over China
Movie Writer
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1969
The Letter to a Chinese Friend
Movie Director
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1962
Law of Baseness
Movie Director
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1956
An Unquiet Spring
Movie Director
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1954
First Spring
Movie Director
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1951
Slava trudu
Movie Director
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1949
Ambulance
Movie Screenplay
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1946
Liberated Earth
Movie Director
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1941
We Await Your Victorious Return
Movie Director
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1939
Blossoming Youth
Movie Director
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1938
The New Moscow
Movie Director
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1936
The Miracle Worker
Movie Director
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1935
Happiness
Movie Director
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1933
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon
Movie Director
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1932
Gazeta #4
Movie Producer
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1932
How's Life, Comrade Miner?
Movie Producer
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1932
Conveyor
Movie Producer
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1932
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain
Movie Director
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1931
Duren, You're a Fool!
Movie Director
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1931
Fruits and Vegetables
Movie Director
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1930
Stop Thief!
Movie Blundering Tractor Driver
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1929
Watch Your Health
Movie Director
