Aleksandr Medvedkin

Le Tombeau d'Alexandre

Chris Marker

Aleksandr Medvedkin

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.

Счастье

Aleksandr Medvedkin

Pyotr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova

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.

Le Train en marche

Chris Marker

Aleksandr Medvedkin, François Périer

This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile film workshop, complete with post-production facilities, animation stations and a large laboratory. Traveling thousands of miles across the Russian countryside, the train stopped to have its filmmakers document Ukranian harvest practices, steel production facilities in southern Russia and other industrial / agricultural matters; With each crew member living in 1 square meter living quarters, all individuals on the train were responsible for various odd-jobs and other practical matters in addition to their own film-making concerns.

Тит

Aleksandr Medvedkin

Чудесница

Aleksandr Medvedkin

Zinaida Bokareva, Leonid Alekseev

Life in a Russian village at harvest time as idealized peasant pastoral, concentrating on the landscapes and folk songs of the region.

Новая Москва

Aleksandr Medvedkin, Aleksandr Olenin

Daniil Sagal, Nina Alisova

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.

Мы ждем вас с победой

Aleksandr Medvedkin, Ilya Trauberg

B. I. Chirkov, L. N. Smirnova

The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm

Beregi zdorovye

Aleksandr Medvedkin

A short film made by Medvedkin, documenting the lack of hygiene in the Red Army.

Освобожденная земля

Aleksandr Medvedkin

Vasili Vanin, Emma Tsesarskaya

After the liberation of the Kuban by the Soviet Army troops, farmers return home and begin to restore the destroyed economy. Under the leadership of the young chairman, Nadiezdha Pritulyak, growers are working with great enthusiasm.

Bespokoinaia vesna

Aleksandr Medvedkin, S. S. Gruzo

S. S. Gruzo, Rimma Shorokhova

A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural plains. A classically Socialist-Realist narrative of an individual's 're-education'. Zhenia, a hapless idler, arrives with a band of enthusiastic young Konsomol members to build a new town in the steppe. Although his dream, like that of all the young participants, is 'to become a tractor driver and a hero', he isn't prepared to work for the honour.

Derzhi vora

Aleksandr Medvedkin

V.A. Maslatov, Aleksandr Medvedkin

Lazy or incompetent peasants try to malinger and wriggle their way out of duties at the Kolkhoz.

The Letter to a Chinese Friend

Aleksandr Medvedkin

Film by Aleksandr Medvekin to a metonymic Chinese friend, advocating against Mao and the Ussuri River Skirmish.

Беспокойная весна

Aleksandr Medvedkin

Sergei Gurzo, Idris Nogajbayev

Группа комсомольцев основала на целинных землях Казахстана совхоз «Май-Балык». Среди юношей и девушек, будущих хлеборобов, выделяется легкомысленный, франтоватый парень Женька Омега. В первые же дни пребывания на целине Женька совершает ряд «подвигов»: меняет резиновые сапоги на гитару, пытается увильнуть от работы, уходит с курсов трактористов. Руководство совхоза и товарищи понимают, что Омеге нельзя доверить трактор, и, несмотря на возмущение паренька, его назначают водовозом. Идёт время. Омега, ставший желанным гостем во всех бригадах, начинает проникаться уважением к своей новой профессии. Вскоре юноше приходится пройти через новое испытание: любимая им девушка Ольга отдаёт свое сердце молодому трактористу, казаху Идрису…

Konveier

Aleksandr Medvedkin

A short film by Aleksandr Medvedkin.

Pervaia vesna

Aleksandr Medvedkin, I. M. Poselsky

A film about the development of virgin and fallow lands in Siberia, Kazakhstan, and the Volga region.

Кинопоезд: Пустое место

Aleksandr Medvedkin

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. A project by Alexandr Medvedkin, though he isn't mentioned in the titles. The cars were full of film prints, editing tables, actors. Films were made in one day: edited at night and the next day shown to the people who participated in it.