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.^[2] His life and art are the subject of Chris Marker's documentary films, The Train Rolls On (1971) and The Last Bolshevik (1992).^[3]

Aleksandr Medvedkin
Born	Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin 24 February 1900 Penza, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	20 February 1989(1989-02-20) (aged 88) Moscow, Soviet Union
Years active	1929–1956
Spouse	Vera Ivanovna Medvedkina
Awards	USSR State Prize (1974)[1]

He travelled around the USSR in his Kinopoezd, a Cinetrain, in which he carried film equipment and shot movies in Kolkhozy, which he would then screen there.^[4]

Selected filmography

• Happiness (1935)
• The Miracle Worker (1936)
• The New Moscow (1938)
• Blossoming Youth (1939)
• The Liberated Earth (1946)