# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aleksandr-ivanovich-medvedkin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:57:11.678Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aleksandr-ivanovich-medvedkin"
name: "Aleksandr Ivanovich Medvedkin"
slug: "aleksandr-ivanovich-medvedkin"
description: "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)."
tagline: "Soviet Russian film director (1900-1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aleksandr_Medvedkin_2025_postal_cover_of_Russia_cr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1900-02-24"
deathDate: "1989-02-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.6
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.884234666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575963/"
    handle:    "nm0575963"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Медведкин, Александр Иванович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "اليكساندر ميدڤيدكين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin"
    title: "Aleksandr Medvedkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin"
    title: "Aleksandr Medvedkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin"
    title: "Aleksandr Medvedkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Iwanowitsch_Medwedkin"
    title: "Alexander Iwanowitsch Medwedkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin"
    title: "Aleksandr Medvedkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin"
    title: "Aleksandr Medvedkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Medvedkine"
    title: "Alexandre Medvedkine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Ivanovi%C4%8D_Medvedkin"
    title: "Aleksandr Ivanovič Medvedkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin"
    title: "Aleksandr Medvedkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Medvedkin"
    title: "Alexandr Medvedkin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1394755"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump