Elem Germanovich Klimov (Russian: Элем Германович Климов; Stalingrad, current Volgograd, 9 July1933 – 26 October2003) was a SovietRussianfilm director. Volgograd (ВолгограÌд) (population: 1,012,000), formerly called Tsaritsyn (ЦариÌцын) (1598 - 1925) and Stalingrad (СталинграÌд) (1925 - 1961) is a city on the west bank of Volga river in southwestern Volgograd Oblast (province), Northern Caucasus district, Russia. ... July 9 is the 190th day of the year (191st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 175 days remaining. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Soviet redirects here. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
He is best known in the West by his film Come and See (Иди и смотри), a powerful tale of a teenage boy in German occupied Belarus during the Great Patriotic War, but he also directed several light comedies and children movies. The Eastern Front1 was the theatre of combat between Nazi Germany and its allies against the Soviet Union during World War II. It was somewhat separate from the other theatres of the war, not only geographically, but also for its scale and ferocity. ...
He studied at VGIK, and was married to film director Larisa Shepitko. The All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography is the worlds oldest educational institution in Cinematography, founded in 1919. ... Larisa Shepitko (b Ukraine 1939 d 1979) was a Russian film director. ...
The Russian film director ElemKlimov, who has died aged 70 after six weeks in a coma, was only ever able to make five features, the last of which, Come And See (1985), is among the most devastating of war films.
Klimov's first feature was Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964), a satire involving a troublesome boy at a young pioneers' summer camp who is expelled by the martinet camp director.
Klimov's third feature, Agony, a forceful epic set during the final days of the Romanov era, took nine years to make, and then spent 10 more on the shelf before being released in 1975.
Klimov's second film, Adventures of a Dentist (1965), was a dark (and in some ways Tatiesque) comedy about a dentist who is derided (and eventually has his life ruined) by his colleagues for his natural talent of painlessly pulling out teeth.
Although finished in 1975, the final film was not released until 1984, partly because of its orgy-scenes and partly because of its relatively nuanced portrait of Tsar Nicholas II.
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