Arvo Kruusement
Director
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.
Filmography
The Wild Swans
as Chamber Master 1987
My Younger Brother
as Matti 1962
Dance Around the Steam Boiler
1988
What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?
as Party Guest (uncredited) 1967
Nazis and Blondes
as Self 2008
Days of June
as Nils 1958
Visit of an Old Lady
as Claire's Husband 2006
In One Hundred Years in May
as Jaan Tõnisson 1987
Yachts at Sea
as Juuksur 1955
The Red Violin
as Veski 1975
Spanish Version
1980