Aleksandr Medvedkin Movies

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

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

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.

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...

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

A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's...

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

A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things)...

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...

Satire directed at the American humanitarian initiative launched in Europe in 1948 and mostly known as the Marshall Plan. Soviet Union famously...

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

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

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...

The only surviving film from the first trip of Aleksandr Medvedkin's Kinopoezd (film train). A 'film-newspaper' demonstrating one key aspect of the...

A comedy about Krushchev's 'Virgin Lands' project, to transform the barren and inhospitable spaces of the vast Soviet Union into fertile agricultural...

This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile film workshop, complete with post-production...

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...

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

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...

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...