- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- April 20, 1928
- Place of Birth
- Undla, Estonia
Arvo Kruusement
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
movieNazis and Blondes
2008 · Self
movieVisit of an Old Lady
2006 · Claire's Husband
movieAutumn
1990 · Director
movieDance Around the Steam Boiler
1988
movieThe Wild Swans
1987 · Chamber Master
movieIn One Hundred Years in May
1987 · Jaan Tõnisson
movieThe Gang
1986 · Director
The R Document
tvThe R Document
1985
movieThe Smacking Sea
1981 · Director, Writer
movieSpanish Version
1980
movieA Woman Heats the Sauna
1979 · Director
movieVõsakurat
1976 · Writer
movieSummer
1976 · Director
movieIndrek
1976 · Screenplay
movieThe Red Violin
1975 · Veski
movieDon Juan in Tallinn
1973 · Director
movieSpring
1970 · Director
moviePostmark from Vienna
1968 · First Assistant Director
movieLetters from the Island of the Insane
1967 · First Assistant Director
movieWhat Happened To Andres Lapeteus?
1967 · Party Guest (uncredited)
movieI Am Bereza
1964 · Nemetskiy mayor
movieMy Younger Brother
1962 · Matti
movieDays of June
1958 · Nils
movieYachts at Sea
1955 · Juuksur