Aleksandr Medvedkin
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin (Russian: Александр Иванович Медведкин; 24 February 1900 – 20 February 1989) 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.
The Last Bolshevik
as Self (archive footage)A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the...
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The Silence of Pelešjan
as Self (archive footage)A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.
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The Train Rolls On
as HimselfThis half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile...
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Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man
as SelfThe director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration.
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