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Arvo Kruusement
Undla, Viru County, Estonia [now Lääne-Viru County]
Arvo Kruusement (April 20, 1928 – September 9, 2026) was an Estonian actor, theatre and film director who has made some of Estonia's classic novels into films; Spring (1969), Summ…
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Arvo Kruusement (April 20, 1928 – September 9, 2026) was an Estonian actor, theatre and film director who has made some of Estonia's classic novels into films; Spring (1969), Summer (1976), and Autumn (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. 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
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2008
Nazis and Blondes
Movie Self
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2006
Visit of an Old Lady
Movie Claire's Husband
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1990
Autumn
Movie Director
- 1988
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1987
The Wild Swans
Movie Chamber Master
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1987
In One Hundred Years in May
Movie Jaan Tõnisson
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1986
The Gang
Movie Director
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1985
The R Document
TV show
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1981
The Smacking Sea
Movie Director
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1980
Spanish Version
Movie
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1979
A Woman Heats the Sauna
Movie Director
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1976
Võsakurat
Movie Writer
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1976
Summer
Movie Director
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1976
Indrek
Movie Screenplay
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1975
The Red Violin
Movie Veski
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1973
Don Juan in Tallinn
Movie Director
More credits
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1970
Spring
Movie Director
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1968
Postmark from Vienna
Movie First Assistant Director
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1967
Letters from the Island of the Insane
Movie First Assistant Director
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1967
What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?
Movie Party Guest (uncredited)
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1964
I Am Bereza
Movie Nemetskiy mayor
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1962
My Younger Brother
Movie Matti
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1958
Days of June
Movie Nils
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1955
Yachts at Sea
Movie Juuksur
