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Elem Klimov

Elem Klimov

Director · Born 1933-07-09 · Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Volgograd, Russia]

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Biography

Elem Germanovich Klimov (Russian: Эле́м Ге́рманович Кли́мов; 9 July 1933 – 26 October 2003) was a Soviet Russian film director. He studied at VGIK, and was married to film director Larisa Shepitko. Klimov is best known in the West for his final film, 1985's Come and See (Иди и смотри), which follows a teenage boy in German-occupied Belarus during the German-Soviet War and is often considered one of the greatest war films ever made. He also directed dark comedies, children's movies, and historical pictures.

Directed

  1. Come and See (1985) — Director
  2. Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) — Director
  3. Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin (1981) — Director
  4. Larisa (1980) — Director
  5. Farewell (1983) — Director
  6. The Groom (1960) — Director
  7. Sport, Sport, Sport (1970) — Director
  8. Adventures of a Dentist (1967) — Director
  9. And Still I Believe (1974) — Director
  10. Fuse (1962) — Director
  11. Look! The Sky! (1962) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Larisa (1980) — Self
  2. The Story of the Film 'Come and See' (1985) — Self
  3. Boys from Our Courtyard (1961) — Fyodor
  4. Klimov (1988) — Himself
  5. A Talk with Larisa (1999) — Self
  6. Islands (2012) — (archive footage)
  7. More Than Love (2012) — archive footage