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Aleksandr Medvedkin

Also Known As: Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine , Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin, A. Medvedkin

Birth Date

March 8, 1900

Death Date

February 19, 1989

(passed away at 88)

Place of Birth

Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]

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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.