The Last Bolshevik
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his...
Directing
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.
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A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his...
The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration.
This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film stu...
A full-length documentary film directed by Alexander Medvedkin tells about the nature of Maoism, the events in...
About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.
A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.
Lazy or incompetent peasants try to malinger and wriggle their way out of duties at the Kolkhoz.