Elem Germanovich Klimov

Elem Germanovich Klimov, the famous Soviet director and screenwriter, was born in Stalingrad, July 9, 1933. In 1957, Elem graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, after which he got a job in the well-known youth editorial office of Central Television and All-Union Radio, in the notorious Moscow Philharmonic. Elem Klimov graduated from the directorial faculty at VGIK in 1964. At the same time, he became the director of the Mosfilm film studio. In 1979, the wife of the director Larisa Shepitko more

Elem Germanovich Klimov, the famous Soviet director and screenwriter, was born in Stalingrad, July 9, 1933. In 1957, Elem graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, after which he got a job in the well-known youth editorial office of Central Television and All-Union Radio, in the notorious Moscow Philharmonic. Elem Klimov graduated from the directorial faculty at VGIK in 1964. At the same time, he became the director of the Mosfilm film studio.

In 1979, the wife of the director Larisa Shepitko tragically died in a car accident. Elem immortalized her memory by making a documentary about her called “Larisa”, and later directed the film “Farewell”, which she had just begun to shoot.

1985 was a successful year for Elem Klimov - his film "Agony" received the FIPRESCI prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Also his best works are such films as “Look, sky”, “Welcome, or outsiders are forbidden”, “The Adventures of the dentist”.
Gold prize at the Moscow International Festival won the painting "Go and see" filmed by Klimov from a script created with the help of a writer Ales Adamovich in the same year 1985. Many of his other works have also been awarded prestigious awards at various international festivals.

In the last years of his life, the director devoted his time to work on a documentary and artistic project consisting of 12 series, which was called “Sport and Cinema”.
Remaining a widower, Elem never married again and raised a son alone.
Elem Klimov died after a stroke in a hospital in Moscow, October 26, 2003. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow on October 30.