Arvo Kruusement
Born: 1928-04-20 in Undla, Estonia
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2008
- Nazis and Blondes as Self
2006
- Visit of an Old Lady as Claire's Husband
1990
- Autumn ... (Director)
1987
- In One Hundred Years in May as Jaan Tõnisson
- The Wild Swans as Chamber Master
1986
- The Gang ... (Director)
1985
1981
- The Smacking Sea ... (Director)
1980
1979
- A Woman Heats the Sauna ... (Director)
1975
- The Red Violin as Veski
1973
- Don Juan in Tallinn ... (Director)
1970
- Spring ... (Director)
1968
- Postmark from Vienna ... (First Assistant Director)
1967
- What Happened To Andres Lapeteus? as Party Guest (uncredited)
- Letters from the Island of the Insane ... (First Assistant Director)
1964
- I Am Bereza as Nemetskiy mayor
1962
- My Younger Brother as Matti
1958
- Days of June as Nils
1955
- Yachts at Sea as Juuksur