Perestroika who was unofficially presented there, consulting the activists from time to time. Klimov's leadership saw the belated release of many of the previously banned films and the reinstatement of several directors who had fallen out of political favor. This period is widely considered as the start of decline of Soviet cinema and the rise of the so-called "chernukha", namely artists and journalists, who, freed by glasnost, exposed Soviet reality in the most pessimistic possible light. Klimov was still frustrated by the obstacles that still remained in his way and gave up his post in 1988 to Andrei Smirnov, saying that he wanted to make films again. Klimov completed no more films after Come and See. While he had plans to make more films in the late 1980s, he said in 2000 that he had "lost interest in making films. Everything that was possible I felt I had already done." Filmography Beware: Vulgarity (1959) The Groom (short) (1960) Look, the Sky! (1962) Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) Adventures of a Dentist (1965) Fitil (1968, 1972) Sport, Sport, Sport (1970) Larisa (documentary short dedicated to Larisa Shepitko) Agony (1981) Farewell (1983) Come and See (1985) References External links An overview of Elem Klimov's career at kinoeye.org The Guardian's Obituary Pacific Cinematheque's detailed overview of Klimov's career 1933 births 2003 deaths Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Deaths from cerebrovascular disease Deaths from hypoxia Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni German-language film directors Moscow Aviation Institute alumni Neurological disease deaths in Russia Mass media people from Volgograd People's Artists of Russia Russian film directors 20th-century Russian screenwriters Male screenwriters 20th-century Russian male writers Soviet film directors Soviet screenwriters