Le Tombeau d'Alexandre

Le tombeau d' Alexandre is a portrait of Russian filmmaker Alexandr Medvedkine, who died recently and who was a personal friend of Marker's. But by taking Medvedkine's life as a point of departure, this film also writes a part of Russian history. Marker does so in the form of six fictional letters to his deceased colleague. He dwells on the important data in Russian history and mirrors them with the events from Medvedkine's life. In this way, we successively get to know Medvedkine as a seventeen-year-old boy during the revolution, as a twenty-year-old red rider in the civil war, as a thirty?eight?year?old victim of Stalinist censorship, as a man of forty who is making war films and finally as an aged man who is a supporter of perestroika. This personal video letterincorporates fragments from Medvedkine's own work. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)