As Actor
The Last Bolshevik
1993
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Aleksandr Medvedkin
Acting
Birth Date
March 8, 1900
Place of Birth
Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Date of Death
February 19, 1989
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.
