Aleksandr Medvedkin
Know for: Directing
Born: 1900-03-08
Place of birth: Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also know as:
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984)
The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration.
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979)
About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.
The Last Bolshevik (1993)
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's...
Stop Thief! (1930)
Lazy or incompetent peasants try to malinger and wriggle their way out of duties at the Kolkhoz.
The Train Rolls On (1973)
This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile film workshop, complete with post-production...
The Silence of Pelešjan (2011)
A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.
Ambulance (1949)
Satire directed at the American humanitarian initiative launched in Europe in 1948 and mostly known as the Marshall Plan. Soviet Union famously...
Happiness (1934)
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things)...
Night over China (1971)
An extraordinary document from one of the Cold War's bitterest conflicts - between the Soviet Union and Communist China - this film spares no quarter...
Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind (1977)
About the huge international assistance that the USSR provided to China.
The New Moscow (1938)
A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.
The Miracle Worker (1936)
Life in a Russian village at harvest time as idealized peasant pastoral, concentrating on the landscapes and folk songs of the region.
The Miracle Worker (1936)
Life in a Russian village at harvest time as idealized peasant pastoral, concentrating on the landscapes and folk songs of the region.
Watch Your Health (1929)
A short film made by Medvedkin, documenting the lack of hygiene in the Red Army.
Happiness (1934)
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things)...
The Letter to a Chinese Friend (1969)
Film by Aleksandr Medvekin to a metonymic Chinese friend, advocating against Mao and the Ussuri River Skirmish.
The Letter to a Chinese Friend (1969)
Film by Aleksandr Medvekin to a metonymic Chinese friend, advocating against Mao and the Ussuri River Skirmish.
The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon (1933)
A lazy farmer Tit takes the only job he can do: being a scarecrow in a field. Original movie is lost but in 2000 it was reconstructed by Nikolay...
Law of Baseness (1962)
Taking the viewer on a tour through several African nations and using the full range of agit-prop aesthetics in its imagery, didactic voice-over and...
Liberated Earth (1946)
After the liberation of the Kuban by the Soviet Army troops, farmers return home and begin to restore the destroyed economy. Under the leadership of...
Blossoming Youth (1939)
At the eve of the Second World War, one of the first color films, which has preserved for us the parade of athletes, which was held in 1939 on Red...
Gazeta #4 (1932)
The only surviving film from the first trip of Aleksandr Medvedkin's Kinopoezd (film train). A 'film-newspaper' demonstrating one key aspect of the...
How's Life, Comrade Miner? (1932)
A film report produced on Aleksandr Medvedkin's Kino-train, addressing the problems of living conditions in the October Mine in the Krivoi Rog region...
Stop Thief! (1930)
Lazy or incompetent peasants try to malinger and wriggle their way out of duties at the Kolkhoz.
An Unquiet Spring (1956)
A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural...
Night over China (1971)
An extraordinary document from one of the Cold War's bitterest conflicts - between the Soviet Union and Communist China - this film spares no quarter...
We Await Your Victorious Return (1941)
The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows...
We Await Your Victorious Return (1941)
The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows...
First Spring (1954)
A film about the development of virgin and fallow lands in Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Volga region.
Kinopoezd - Cinetrain (1932)
The eleven films that survived from the series of films shot, edited, and shown from three custom railway cars travelling throughout the Soviet...
Caution! Maoism! (1976)
A full-length documentary film directed by Alexander Medvedkin tells about the nature of Maoism, the events in China in the 1960s and early 1970s
The New Moscow (1938)
A comedy about a naive young architect and his wild designs for a “New Moscow.” The Soviet censors weren't at all amused and shelved it.
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984)
The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration.
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984)
The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration.
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979)
About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979)
About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.
An Unquiet Spring (1956)
A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural...
Law of Baseness (1962)
Taking the viewer on a tour through several African nations and using the full range of agit-prop aesthetics in its imagery, didactic voice-over and...