Movies: Elem Klimov

The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home...

Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination....

A satirical comedy about the excessive restrictions that children face during their vacation in a Young Pioneer camp....

Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland....

Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck....

Originally called World '68, later retitled The World of Today Romm’s film was conceived as an impassioned, large-scale essay on the origins of the 20th century and the subsequent reality the disappointed director felt slipping away from him. The fil...

This is story about a dentist with the talent of painlessly extracting teeth, and what happens to him as a result of being naturally good at his job....

A short film about young delinquents terrorizing a neighbourhood....

A young schoolboy tries to help the girl he likes to pass a test....

A half-fiction half-documentary story about sport and it's importance in everyday life....

Elem Klimov's diploma film at VGIK....

A program made for Kultura on the life and career of Larisa Shepitko....

A promotional featurette for the 1985 film "Come and See" including on-set footage from the production as well as interviews with the director, writer, and lead actor....

A program on the relationship between the filmmaking couple Larisa Sheptiko and Elim Klimov....

This 1999 program, broadcast on the Russian television channel Kultura, features an introduction by filmmaker Elem Klimov and film critic Irina Rubanova to an interview with director Larisa Shepitko that was recorded just after the 1978 Berlin Intern...

Interviews with director Elem Klimov made for the Kino DVD release....