ABSTRACT
Chris Marker’s The Last Bolshevik (Le tombeau d’Alexandre, France 1993) is a documentary film about the late Soviet filmmaker Alexander Medvedkin and his century. 1 Marker’s film discusses an era through the portrait of one man, and it fashions Medvedkin’s portrait with photographs, film stills, and film fragments that belong to the Soviet century. Archival documents from Medvedkin’s epoch intertwine with six letters that Marker directs at Medvedkin on the soundtrack.
