Known For
Directing
Known Credits
13
Gender
Male
Birthday
April 20, 1928 (98 years old)
Place of Birth
Undla, Estonia
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.
| 1990 | Autumn...Director | |
| 1986 | The Gang...Director | |
| 1981 | The Smacking Sea...Director | |
| 1979 | A Woman Heats the Sauna...Director | |
| 1976 | Summer...Director | |
| 1973 | Don Juan in Tallinn...Director | |
| 1970 | Spring...Director | |
| 1968 | Postmark from Vienna...First Assistant Director | |
| 1967 | Letters from the Island of the Insane...First Assistant Director |
| 1981 | The Smacking Sea...Writer | |
| 1976 | Võsakurat...Writer | |
| 1976 | Indrek...Screenplay |
| 2008 | Nazis and Blondesas Self | |
| 2006 | Visit of an Old Ladyas Claire's Husband | |
| 1988 | Dance Around the Steam Boileras | |
| 1987 | The Wild Swansas Chamber Master | |
| 1987 | In One Hundred Years in Mayas Jaan Tõnisson | |
| 1985 | The R Documentas | |
| 1980 | Spanish Versionas | |
| 1975 | The Red Violinas Veski | |
| 1967 | What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?as Party Guest (uncredited) | |
| 1964 | I Am Berezaas Nemetskiy mayor | |
| 1962 | My Younger Brotheras Matti | |
| 1958 | Days of Juneas Nils | |
| 1955 | Yachts at Seaas Juuksur |