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Elem Klimov

Director

Elem Klimov

Directing
1964 — 1985 · 4 films
Lived
9 July 1933 — d. 2003
From
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 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.

Career Signature

How Elem Klimov’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.