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.
2011The Silence of PelešjanMovieas Self (archive footage)
1994The Last BolshevikMovieas Self (archive footage)
1984Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old ManMovieas Self · Writer · Director1976Caution! Maoism!Movieas Narrator · Director · Writer
1971The Train Rolls OnMovieas Himself
1971Night over ChinaMovieWriter · Director
1969The Letter to a Chinese FriendMovieDirector · Writer
1956An Unquiet SpringMovieDirector · Writer
1949AmbulanceMovieScreenplay
1946Liberated EarthMovieDirector
1941We Await Your Victorious ReturnMovieDirector · Writer
1938The New MoscowMovieDirector · Screenplay
1936The Miracle WorkerMovieDirector · Writer
1935HappinessMovieDirector · Writer
1932ConveyorMovieProducer
1932Kinopoezd - CinetrainMovieDirector
1931Duren, You're a Fool!MovieDirector · Writer
1931Fruits and VegetablesMovieDirector