Aleksandr Ivanovich 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. 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 the USSR in his Kinopoezd, a Cinetrain, in which he carried film equipment and shot movies in Kolkhozy, which he would then screen there.
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin
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- Born
- 1900. · Penza.
- Died
- 1989. · Moscow.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russian Empire.
- Occupation
- film director, screenwriter and opinion journalist.
- Fields
- film direction, film screenwriting and film journalism.
- Honours
- USSR State Prize, Medal For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945, Order of the Red Banner, Order of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution and People's Artist of the USSR.
- Languages
- Russian.
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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. 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 the USSR in his Kinopoezd, a Cinetrain, in which he carried film equipment and shot movies in Kolkhozy, which he would then screen there.
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Happiness (1935) The Miracle Worker (1936) The New Moscow (1938) Blossoming Youth (1939) The Liberated Earth (1946)
№ 2025-034/1. 125 лет со дня рождения А.И. Медведкина (1900–1989), режиссёра, сценариста, актёра
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin is recorded as having received USSR State Prize, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" and Order of the Red Banner.
1989
Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin died at Moscow.
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- 1.Nikolai Izvolov. Медвед-кино. Синематика. 12 March 2010.
- 2.Rollberg, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman & Littlefield. 439–442. 2009. 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- 3.115 лет со дня рождения А. И. Медведкина. The State Archive of the Penza Oblast. 2 March 2013.
- 4.Trofimenkov, Mikhail. Кинопоезд.Киноутопия о коммунистическом строительстве. Коммерсантъ Weekend №15. 13 May 2016.
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