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Aleksandr Medvedkin
Directing
Born March 8, 1900 · Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Died February 19, 1989
Also known as Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine · Aleksandr Ivanovitch Medvedkin · A. Medvedkin
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.
Awards & recognition
- Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
- Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"
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- Medal "Veteran of Labour"
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Badge of Honour
- Order of the October Revolution
- Order of the Patriotic War
- Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class
- Order of the Red Banner
- People's Artist of the RSFSR
- People's Artist of the USSR
- USSR State Prize
