Elem Klimov
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Birth Place
Russia
Biography
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Soviet director noted for his documentary-style camerawork and often grotesque, unsympathetic characters. Klimov was the founding First Secretary of the Union of Soviet Filmmakers and earned world-wide acclaim with "Come and See" (1985), a stark, unrelenting account of a young boy's passage to manhood as a partisan in war-torn Byelorussia in the early 1940s. Klimov was married to the lat...
Filmography
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Come and See
(1985)
Director
Proshchanie
(1983)
Director
Agonia
(1975)
Director
Adventures of a Dentist
(1965)
Director
Come and See
(1985)
Screenwriter
Family & Companions
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Larisa Shepitko
Wife
Director. Married until her death in a car crash in 1980; Klimov took over her final project, "Farewell," which she wrote and was scheduled to direct.
Biography
Soviet director noted for his documentary-style camerawork and often grotesque, unsympathetic characters. Klimov was the founding First Secretary of the Union of Soviet Filmmakers and earned world-wide acclaim with "Come and See" (1985), a stark, unrelenting account of a young boy's passage to manhood as a partisan in war-torn Byelorussia in the early 1940s. Klimov was married to the late director Larisa Shepitko (1938-1979), whose unrealized final project, "Farewell" (1981), he directed.
Filmography
Director (Feature Film)
Come and See
(1985)
Director
Proshchanie
(1983)
Director
Agonia
(1975)
Director
Adventures of a Dentist
(1965)
Director
Writer (Feature Film)
Come and See
(1985)
Screenwriter
Life Events
Companions
Larisa Shepitko
Wife
Director. Married until her death in a car crash in 1980; Klimov took over her final project, "Farewell," which she wrote and was scheduled to direct.
