Years active 1929–56 Name Aleksandr Medvedkin | Role Film director | |
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Full Name Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin Movies Happiness, The Liberated Earth Similar People Chris Marker, Nikolay Cherkasov, Emma Tsesarskaya, Vasili Vanin, Vera Altayskaya | ||
Aleksandr medvedkin about his cinetrain
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin (Russian: Александр Иванович Медведкин; 24 February 1900 – 20 February 1989), was a Soviet Russian film director, best known for his 1934 film Happiness. His life and art are the subject of Chris Marker's film The Last Bolshevik (1992).
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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.
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