Elmo Nüganen
Actor
Biography
Elmo Nüganen (born February 15, 1962 in Jõhvi) is an Estonian theatre director, film director, and actor.
He has been the artistic director of the Tallinn City Theatre since 1992. He was a graduate of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1988 and then a professor at the academy in 1998–2002 and 2008–2012. He directed the war films Names in Marble from 2002 and 1944 from 2015. Names in Marble was seen by more than 168,000 people in Estonia and was selected for the 2003 Taormina Film Fest, while 1944 had the highest opening-week audience numbers in Estonian film history and became the country's submission for the Academy Awards.
Nüganen has received multiple awards for his work in theatre, including the Estonian Annual Theatre Award for Best Director in 1992, 1995, 2000, 2007, and 2010, and the Estonian National Cultural Award in 1996, 1999, and 2009.
Filmography
Tangerines
as Margus 2013
Purge
as Father 2012
Names in Marble
as Armored Train Commander 2002
Dawn of War
as Major Kurg 2020
Mushrooming
as Gas Station Attendant 2012
Marraskuun harmaa valo
as Tõnu Valjus 1993
For Crazies Only
1991
Prompter
as Robert 1993
Love for Three Oranges
as Pantalone 1994
Portugal
as Boss 2018
August välja
as Himself 2014
Demons
as Stranger 2012
One-Dimensional Man
as Investigator 2025
Conversation
2022
Sunday Only
1990
Father, Son and Holy Theatre
2010
Rebel with a Bow Tie
as Self (uncredited) 2025