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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1928-04-20 (97 years old)

Place of Birth

Undla, Estonia

Arvo Kruusement

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

Acting

2008

2006

Visit of an Old Lady as Claire's Husband

1988

1987

The Wild Swans as Chamber Master
In One Hundred Years in May as Jaan Tõnisson

1980

1975

1967

1964

I Am Bereza as Nemetskiy mayor

1962

1958

Days of June as Nils

1955

Yachts at Sea as Juuksur

Directing

1990

Autumn as Director

1985

The Gang as Director

1981

The Smacking Sea as Director

1979

1976

Summer as Director

1973

1970

Spring as Director

1968

Postmark from Vienna as First Assistant Director

1967

Letters from the Island of the Insane as First Assistant Director

Writing

1981

1976

Võsakurat as Writer
Indrek as Screenplay