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Arvo Kruusement

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
13

Gender
Male

Birthday
April 20, 1928 (98 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

Directing

1990Autumn...Director
1986The Gang...Director
1981The Smacking Sea...Director
1979A Woman Heats the Sauna...Director
1976Summer...Director
1973Don Juan in Tallinn...Director
1970Spring...Director
1968Postmark from Vienna...First Assistant Director
1967Letters from the Island of the Insane...First Assistant Director

Writing

1981The Smacking Sea...Writer
1976Võsakurat...Writer
1976Indrek...Screenplay

Acting

2008Nazis and Blondesas Self
2006Visit of an Old Ladyas Claire's Husband
1988Dance Around the Steam Boileras
1987The Wild Swansas Chamber Master
1987In One Hundred Years in Mayas Jaan Tõnisson
1985The R Documentas
1980Spanish Versionas
1975The Red Violinas Veski
1967What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?as Party Guest (uncredited)
1964I Am Berezaas Nemetskiy mayor
1962My Younger Brotheras Matti
1958Days of Juneas Nils
1955Yachts at Seaas Juuksur