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Ain Mäeots

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
17

Gender
Male

Birthday
December 25, 1971 (54 years old)

Place of Birth
Võru, Võru County, Estonian SRR, USSR [now Estonia]

Ain Mäeots

Biography

Ain Mäeots (born December 25, 1971) is an Estonian stage, film, and television actor and stage, film, and television director and producer.

Ain Mäeots' first film role as an actor was a small role in the 2000 Mare Raidma directed short Lunastus, for Faama Film and Eesti Televisioon. In 2005, he appeared in his first feature-length film as Lembitu in the Kaaren Kaer directed comedy Malev; a skewed interpretation of Estonia's history set in the year 1208. In 2007, he made a cameo appearance in the Rain Tolk and Andres Maimik directed comedy Jan Uuspõld läheb Tartusse (English release title: 186 Kilometers), in which Estonian actor Jan Uuspõld plays a down-on-his-luck caricature of himself, trying to hitchhike from Tallinn to Tartu to perform in a role at the Vanemuine theater.

In 2008, Mäeots made his debut as a film director with the Exitfilm biography Taarka, based on the play of the same name by Kauksi Ülle about the difficult life of Seto folk singer Hilana Taarka. Taarka has the distinction of being the first feature-length film in the Seto dialect. Mäeots also made a brief appearance in the film in the role of a villager. Taarka won the 2008 Estonian Cultural Endowment Debut Award.

In 2012, he co-wrote and directed his second film, the drama Deemonid. The film chronicles the unraveling of three people who enter a casino and subsequently confronting their inner demons.

In 2013, he appeared as Erik in the Hardi Volmer directed historical melodrama feature film Elavad pildid, which follows two Estonians, a girl and a boy, born at the beginning of the 20th-century in a Baltic German manor, through the coming decades and all of the revolutions, wars, military occupations, regime collapses, and new beginnings.

In 2015, he played the role of Captain Evald Viires in the Elmo Nüganen directed war film 1944. The film is set in World War II and is shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and thus fight against their fellow countrymen. It was selected as the Estonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. In 2019, he played the role of Joosep in the Mart Sander directed fantasy-horror film Kõhedad muinaslood.

Known For

Acting

2025Jan Uuspõld Goes Homeas Director
2024The Agencyas Russian Commander
2023Dark Paradiseas Father
2022Fathers and Sonsas Telepropagandist Nevzorov
2019EnsVas Saksa ohvitser
2019Eerie Fairy Talesas Joosep
2019The Spring of Solitudeas Joosep
2018Happy Familyas Ingrid's Boss
2017Lotte's Storiesas Hubert / Eduard's Grandfather
20151944as Captain Evald Viires
2013Living Imagesas Erik
2010ENSVas Enn
2010ENSVas Tom (voice)
2008Taarkaas Groom
2007186 Kilometersas Ain Mäeots
2005Men at Armsas Lembitu
1995The Boys of Wikmanas Juhan Pukspuu

Production

2023The Legend of Pitka...Director
2023Fools of Fame...Director
2022Tango of Mustamägi...Director
2022Fathers and Sons...Director
2019EnsV...Director
2017Lotte's Stories...Creator
2017Lotte's Stories...Director
2012Demons...Director
2012Demons...Screenplay
2010ENSV...Director
2008Taarka...Director
2008Taarka...Writer
2003The Beauty Queen of the Mountains...Director