Person
Arvo Kruusement
Directing · Born 1928-04-20 · Undla, Viru County, Estonia [now Lääne-Viru County]
Biography
Arvo Kruusement (born April 20, 1928) is an Estonian actor, theatre and film director who has made some of Estonia's classic novels into films; Spring (1969), Summer (1976), and Fall (1990) The movie Spring has been noted as the best Estonian feature film in the Top Ten Poll held by Estonian film critics and journalists in 2002. In 1970 the movie sold 558,000 tickets in Estonia (Total population 1.34 million) and in 1971 8,100,000 tickets in Soviet Union. Arvo Kruusement attended GITIS in Moscow, Russia from where he graduated in 1953. in 1953-1961 he worked as an actor at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn. In 1962-1964 Arvo Kruusement was the director of the Endla Theatre in Pärnu, Estonia, and film director for Tallinnfilm in 1965–1991.
Known for
Days of June
Nils
Postmark from Vienna
First Assistant Director
Spring
Director
Spanish Version
1980
Summer
Director
The R Document
1985
Võsakurat
Writer
The Wild Swans
Chamber Master
The Smacking Sea
Director
The Red Violin
Veski
Filmography
- 2008Nazis and BlondesSelf
- 2006Visit of an Old LadyClaire's Husband
- 1990AutumnDirector
- 1988Dance Around the Steam Boiler
- 1987The Wild SwansChamber Master
- 1987In One Hundred Years in MayJaan Tõnisson
- 1986The GangDirector
- 1985The R Document
- 1981The Smacking SeaDirector
- 1980Spanish Version
- 1979A Woman Heats the SaunaDirector
- 1976VõsakuratWriter
- 1976SummerDirector
- 1976IndrekScreenplay
- 1975The Red ViolinVeski
- 1973Don Juan in TallinnDirector
- 1970SpringDirector
- 1968Postmark from ViennaFirst Assistant Director
- 1967Letters from the Island of the InsaneFirst Assistant Director
- 1967What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?Party Guest (uncredited)
- 1964I Am BerezaNemetskiy mayor
- 1962My Younger BrotherMatti
- 1958Days of JuneNils
- 1955Yachts at SeaJuuksur
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