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.

Directed

1. Spring (1970) — Director
2. Summer (1976) — Director
3. Don Juan in Tallinn (1973) — Director
4. Autumn (1990) — Director
5. A Woman Heats the Sauna (1979) — Director
6. The Gang (1986) — Director
7. The Smacking Sea (1981) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Wild Swans (1987) — Chamber Master
2. My Younger Brother (1962) — Matti
3. Dance Around the Steam Boiler (1988)
4. What Happened To Andres Lapeteus? (1967) — Party Guest (uncredited)
5. Days of June (1958) — Nils
6. Nazis and Blondes (2008) — Self
7. In One Hundred Years in May (1987) — Jaan Tõnisson
8. Yachts at Sea (1955) — Juuksur
9. The Red Violin (1975) — Veski
10. The R Document (1985)
11. Visit of an Old Lady (2006) — Claire's Husband
12. Spanish Version (1980)
13. I Am Bereza (1964) — Nemetskiy mayor