Aleksandr_Medvedkin

Aleksandr Medvedkin

Aleksandr Medvedkin

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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]

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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]

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References

  1. [1]
    Nikolai Izvolov (2010-03-12). "Медвед-кино". Синематика.
  2. [2]
    Peter Rollberg (2009). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. US: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 439–442. ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
  3. [3]
    "115 лет со дня рождения А. И. Медведкина". The State Archive of the Penza Oblast. 2013-03-02.
  4. [4]
    Mikhail Trofimenkov (2016-05-13). "Кинопоезд.Киноутопия о коммунистическом строительстве". Коммерсантъ Weekend №15.
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