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.

Known For

The Wild Swans

as Chamber Master

My Younger Brother

as Matti

Dance Around the Steam Boiler

What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?

as Party Guest

Nazis and Blondes

as Self

Days of June

as Nils

Visit of an Old Lady

as Claire's Husband

In One Hundred Years in May

as Jaan Tõnisson

Yachts at Sea

as Juuksur

The Red Violin

as Veski