Elem Klimov
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1933-07-09 (70 years old)
Deathday
2003-10-26
Place of Birth
Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Volgograd, Russia]
Also known As
Elem Germanowitsch Klimow
Elem Germanovič Klimov
Элем Климов
Elem Guermanovitch Klimov
Elem Klimov
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.
Acting
1961
as Fyodor
1980
as Self
1988
as Himself
1985
1999
as Self
2012
as (archive footage)
2012
as archive footage
Production
1964
as Director
1985
as Director
1981
as Director
1960
as Director
1970
as Director
1983
as Director
1967
as Director
1980
as Director
1962
as Director
1974
as Director
1985
as Screenplay
1980
as Writer
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