Elem Klimov

Elem Klimov (1933-2003), born in Stalingrad on 9 July 1933, graduated in 1957 from the Moscow Aviation Institute, then studied directing at the film institute, in the workshop of Efim Dzigan. His first feature film, a satire, dates from 1964; another of his films, shot in 1975, waited ten years for its release. Elected in 1986 to head the Union of Filmmakers, one of whose commissions released films that had been banned until then, he remained its first secretary until 1988. He died in Moscow on 26 October 2003.

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• CinemaCome and SeeИди и смотриElem Klimov · 1985Cinema