Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing
March 8, 1900
Died at age 88
February 19, 1989
Date of Death
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
7 Credits
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.
