Aleksandr Medvedkin

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Born on March 08, 1900 (125 years old)

Passed Away on February 19, 1989

From Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Known for Directing

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.

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