Aleksandr Medvedkin

Directing

Born: 1900-03-08
Died: 1989-02-19
From: Penza, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.1

Also Known As

Alexandre Ivanovitch Medvedkine Aleksandr Ivanovitch MedvedkinA. MedvedkinА. Медведкин

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 & Nominations15 won · 0 nominated

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Order of Lenin

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People's Artist of the RSFSR

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Medal "Veteran of Labour"

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Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

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Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

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Order of the Badge of Honour

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Order of the Red Banner

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USSR State Prize

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Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

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Order of the Patriotic War

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People's Artist of the USSR

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Order of the October Revolution

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Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class

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Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

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Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"