Aleksandr Medvedkin Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Aleksandr Medvedkin Trailers
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01 January 1984
The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration.
05 September 2011
A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan.
01 January 1969
Film by Aleksandr Medvekin to a metonymic Chinese friend, advocating against Mao and the Ussuri River Skirmish.
01 January 1979
About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race.
18 January 1932
The eleven films that survived from the series of films shot, edited, and shown from three custom railway cars travelling throughout the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1935.
01 January 1977
About the huge international assistance that the USSR provided to China.
15 March 1935
A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.
21 October 1994
A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's struggles over the course of the 20th Century.
01 April 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.
25 August 1956
A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural plains.
01 January 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 in its indictment of Maoist evils and misrule.
01 January 1941
The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot.
01 April 1936
A competition between milkmaids turns into magic duel as one of them hires a witch to perform a milking ritual, while a young girl discovers a talent to communicate with cows.
30 January 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 Izvolov based on Medvedkin's script and drawings.
01 November 1971
This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobile film studio equipped with cameras, editing rooms, animation stations, and a laboratory.
02 February 1946
After the liberation of the Kuban by the Soviet Army troops, farmers return home and begin to restore the destroyed economy.
31 December 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 train's work: the desire to encourage shame.
23 March 1949
Satire directed at the American humanitarian initiative launched in Europe in 1948 and mostly known as the Marshall Plan.
01 January 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 melodramatic soundtrack, Law of Baseness offers a scathing anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist indictment of the Western world.
01 January 1929
A short film made by Medvedkin, documenting the lack of hygiene in the Red Army.
01 January 1931
A film satire that exposes incompetence and bureaucracy. The plot revolves around the adventures of Ivan Ivanovich Duren, the head of a large construction project.
31 December 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 - a mine that, according to Medvedkin, was so improved by the experience of the kino-train that it subsequently became the most successful mine in the region.
01 January 1931
Agitfilm. The film is lost.
31 December 1930
Lazy or incompetent peasants try to malinger and wriggle their way out of duties at the Kolkhoz.
01 January 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 Square in Moscow.
01 January 1954
A film about the development of virgin and fallow lands in Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Volga region.
01 January 1976
A full-length documentary film directed by Alexander Medvedkin tells about the nature of Maoism, thes
