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.