The Last Bolshevik | movie | 1993 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpie | dG1fOGRIQjBFcXNsaGs

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00:00Alexander Ivanovich Medvedkin is a Russian filmmaker born in 1900.

00:19Proud fathers carved notches on the furniture to measure their children's growth.

00:24The century carved such notches on Medvedkin's life.

00:27He was five and Lenin wrote what has to be done, 17 and he knew, 20 the civil war, 36

00:36the Moscow trials, 41 World War II, 53 Stalin's death and when he himself dies in 1989 it

00:46is on the crest of Perestroika.

00:49In one of his last interviews he berated me as usual, you lazy bastard, why don't you

00:54ever write just a few lines, like this, dear Alexander Ivanovich, now I can write to you.

01:03There were too many things to hush up then, now there are too many to say and I will try

01:09to write them even though you're not here to listen anymore.

01:12But I warn you, I'll need much more space than there is between your two fingers.

01:25Alexander Ivanovich Medvedkin is a Russian filmmaker born in 1909.

01:29Proud fathers carved notches on the furniture to measure their children's growth.

01:33The century carved such notches on Medvedkin's life.

01:36He was five and Lenin wrote what has to be done, 17 and he knew, 20 the civil war, 36

01:42the Moscow trials, 41 World War II, 53 Stalin's death and when he himself dies in 1989 it

01:48is on the crest of Perestroika.