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
all 23
Movies 23
Director 9
self 1
Writer 1
Screenplay 1
Visit of an Old Lady (2006)
Autumn (1990)
The Wild Swans (1987)
In One Hundred Years in May (1987)
The Gang (1986)
The Smacking Sea (1981)
A Woman Heats the Sauna (1979)
Võsakurat (1976)
Summer (1976)
Indrek (1976)
Don Juan in Tallinn (1973)
Spring (1970)
Postmark from Vienna (1968)
Letters from the Island of the Insane (1967)
What Happened To Andres Lapeteus? (1967)
I Am Bereza (1964)
Yachts at Sea (1955)
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Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1928-04-20 (97 years old)
Birth Place
Lääne-Viru County, Estonia
Citizenships
Soviet Union, Estonia
Also Known As
Круусемент Арво Антонович, Крууземент, Арво Круусемент
Awards
Order of the White Star, 3rd Class, Prize of Soviet Estonia, Merited Art Worker of Estonian SSR
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