Aleksandr Medvedkin Movies

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

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

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

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

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...