Aleksandr Medvedkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aleksandr Medvedkin

film director

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1900

Place of Birth: Penza, Penza Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 19-Feb-1989

Profession: screenwriter, film director

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin (Russian: ????????? ???????? ?????????; 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 film's, 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.