Mar 8, 1900 - Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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.
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| Movie | 1984 | Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man | Self | |
| Movie | 1979 | Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder | Self | |
| Movie | 1993 | The Last Bolshevik | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1930 | Stop Thief! | Blundering Tractor Driver | |
| Movie | 1973 | The Train Rolls On | Himself | |
| Movie | 2011 | The Silence of Pelešjan | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1976 | Caution! Maoism! | Narrator |
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| Movie | 1949 | Ambulance | Screenplay | Writing |
| Movie | 1935 | Happiness | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1971 | Night over China | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1977 | Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1938 | The New Moscow | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1936 | The Miracle Worker | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1936 | The Miracle Worker | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1929 | Watch Your Health | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1935 | Happiness | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1969 | The Letter to a Chinese Friend | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1969 | The Letter to a Chinese Friend | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1933 | The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1962 | Law of Baseness | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1946 | Liberated Earth | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1939 | Blossoming Youth | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1932 | Gazeta #4 | Producer | Production |
| Movie | 1932 | How's Life, Comrade Miner? | Producer | Production |
| Movie | 1930 | Stop Thief! | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1941 | We Await Your Victorious Return | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1971 | Night over China | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1956 | An Unquiet Spring | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1954 | First Spring | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1932 | Kinopoezd - Cinetrain | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1976 | Caution! Maoism! | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1938 | The New Moscow | Screenplay | Writing |
| Movie | 1984 | Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1984 | Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1979 | Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1979 | Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1956 | An Unquiet Spring | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1932 | Conveyor | Producer | Production |
| Movie | 1962 | Law of Baseness | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1976 | Caution! Maoism! | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1941 | We Await Your Victorious Return | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1935 | Happiness | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1935 | Happiness | Writer | Writing |
