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Aleksandr Medvedkin

Aleksandr Medvedkin

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Movies Made By Aleksandr Medvedkin (22)

Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984)

The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration. ...

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Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979)

About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race. ...

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Beijing - Anxiety of Mankind (1977)

About the huge international assistance that the USSR provided to China. ...

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Caution! Maoism! (1976)

A full-length documentary film directed by Alexander Medvedkin tells about the nature of Maoism, the events in China in the 1960s and early 1970s ...

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Night over China (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. ...

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The Letter to a Chinese Friend (1969)

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

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Law of Baseness (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 ...

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An Unquiet Spring (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. A classically Socialist-Realist narrative of an individual's 're-education'. Zhenia, a hapless id ...

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First Spring (1954)

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

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Ambulance (1949)

Satire directed at the American humanitarian initiative launched in Europe in 1948 and mostly known as the Marshall Plan. Soviet Union famously rejected the offer despite suffering from 1946-1947 major famine. ...

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Liberated Earth (1946)

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. ...

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We Await Your Victorious Return (1941)

The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. ...

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Blossoming Youth (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. ...

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The New Moscow (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. ...

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The Miracle Worker (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. Only her dreams are miles away, as she's in love. ...

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Happiness (1935)

A hapless man undergoes misadventures with avaricious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary on his road to collectivized happiness. ...

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Happiness (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. ...

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The Story of Tit... or the Tale of the Large Spoon (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. ...

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Gazeta #4 (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. In it, poor workers are named and shamed outright and local l ...

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How's Life, Comrade Miner? (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 subsequ ...

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Conveyor (1932)

A short film by Aleksandr Medvedkin. ...

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Kinopoezd - Cinetrain (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. A project by Alexandr Medvedkin, though he isn't mentioned in the titles. The cars wer ...

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Movies Starring Aleksandr Medvedkin (6)

The Silence of Pelešjan (2011)

A documentary about the Armenian avant-garde filmmaker, Artavazd Pelešjan. ...

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The Last Bolshevik (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. ...

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Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984)

The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration. ...

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Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979)

About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race. ...

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Caution! Maoism! (1976)

A full-length documentary film directed by Alexander Medvedkin tells about the nature of Maoism, the events in China in the 1960s and early 1970s ...

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The Train Rolls On (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. Traveling across the Soviet countryside, the train's crew documen ...

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