Elem Klimov is a Soviet screenwriter and film director. The first secretary of the board of the Union of Cinematographers was the People's Artist of the Russian Federation and Honored Artist of the RSFSR. He was awarded the Diploma of the USSR SK, the Gold Medal and the Prize for directing for the film "Sports, Sports, Sports". He was awarded the FIPRESCI IFF Prize in Venice, the IFF Golden Prize in Moscow. An honorary member of the British Film Institute was a winner of the All-Union Film Festival in the category "Main Special Prize of the Film Festival".
Elem Germanovich Klimov went down in history as a master of serious films raising moral issues. However, the debut was the comedy film "Welcome, or No Trespassing."
Way to the cinema
The biography of the future filmmaker began in 1933. Elem Klimov was born in Stalingrad on July 9. My father was investigating particularly important cases in the Party Control Committee under the Central Committee. Mom worked as a physical education teacher in a city school. Two children grew up in the family.
The younger brother Herman later became a master of sports of international class in athletics, a prize-winner of the USSR championship and international competitions in decathlon and long jumps, he was a member of the national team.
After school, the graduate continued his education at the Metropolitan Aviation Institute. He graduated from training Elem Germanovich in 1957. He started working at the plant as a design engineer, but dreamed of creativity. From his youth, he collaborated with television and the philharmonic. In 1959, Elem starred in the role of Fedor in the film "Guys from Our Yard".
Elem became a student at VGIK. He chose the directing department. Klimov’s teacher was Yefim Dzigan, director of the film “We Are From Kronstadt”. After graduating from the institute in 1964, the beginning director was entrusted with the production of the famous comedy film about the pioneer camp as a graduation work. In a simple story it was told about Kostya Inochkina who was expelled from the territory.
Quite unexpectedly, a fun film turned out to be problematic. The selection committee at the very beginning did not want to agree with the decisions of the young director. The picture was approved by Nikita Khrushchev himself. The director no longer hoped for the success of his project. As a result, the graduate became a full-time director of Mosfilm, receiving a diploma with honors.
Master's work
The new work was also the comedic story of The Dentist's Adventures. However, the film spent two years on the shelf. The tape gained fame only after 20 years of limited circulation and rental.
In an innovative manner, the 1970 film "Sports, Sports, Sports" was shot. It turned out to be combined documentary chronicles and feature films. The project was implemented jointly with Klimov’s younger brother German, who became the author of the script.
The next was the completion of Romm’s documentary project “World Today” with Lavrov and Khutsiev. In 1974, the public saw the documentary-chronicle film "And Still, I Believe …". Further, the director stopped working for several years. He returned to creativity again after leaving his wife's life. A short documentary film "Larisa" was shot about her.
A year later, Klimov shot the piercing drama "Agony". It tells about the life and death of Grigory Rasputin. To achieve the effect of authenticity, the director inserted frames of black and white chronicle into the film.
In the year the picture was released, work was completed on the new dramatic film "Farewell" based on Rasputin's story about the last days of the Siberian village. The film was started by the director’s wife, Klimov dedicated footage to her memory.
Confession
The top of the art is called the 1985 film on the military theme "Go and See" according to the script of Ales Adamovich. According to all who saw this project after it is impossible to remove anything about the fears of wartime.
In just two on-screen days, the starring Alexei Kravchenko turned from a boy into a gray-haired wrinkled old man. The picture won recognition at world-class festivals, including Cannes, Venice and Moscow.
In 1986, Elem Germanovich was elected to the post of first secretary of the Russian Union of Cinematographers. His efforts have taken a course to reject the exclusively entertaining themes of films and launch problem films.
In the late 1980s, the master left the leading position. He intended to return to directing. His dream was a joint film project with the brother of “Masters and Margarita”. Klimov wrote a script for the picture, but the plan was never realized. The shooting of “Demons” based on the work of Dostoevsky also remained unstable.
The last acting work was reading the text behind the scenes in the program about Anatoly Romashin from the series of documentary programs “To Remember”.
