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Elem Klimov
Director 1933 - 2003

Elem Klimov

Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Volgograd, Russia]

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... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

5 titles
Idi i smotri

Idi i smotri

Elem Klimov 1985 2h 22m 9.0

The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred.

Proshchanie

Proshchanie

Elem Klimov 1983 2h 2m

Matyoroy is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. It has been decided that the island shall be flooded and returned to the sea. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyoroy, who are forced to see the disassembling of their village, and their saying farewell to their homeland.

Agoniya

Agoniya

Elem Klimov 1981 2h 22m

Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.

I vsyo-taki ya veryu...

I vsyo-taki ya veryu...

Marlen Khutsiyev, Elem Klimov 1974 2h

Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm’s film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The film itself slipped away from him and was left unfinished at the time of his death.

Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen

Dobro pozhalovat, ili Postoronnim vkhod vospreshchen

Elem Klimov 1964 1h 13m 9.0

A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp.

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