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Elmo Nüganen
Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]
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…
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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.
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2027
Serafima
Movie
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2025
One-Dimensional Man
Movie Investigator
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2025
Rebel with a Bow Tie
Movie Self (uncredited)
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2023
Kalamaja Blues
TV show Neighbor
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2023
Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter
Movie Director
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2022
Conversation
Movie
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2022
Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost
Movie Director
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2022
Melchior the Apothecary
Movie Director
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2020
Dawn of War
Movie Major Kurg
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2018
Portugal
Movie Boss
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2017
Lotte's Stories
TV show Lotte's Grandfather
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2015
1944
Movie Director
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2014
August välja
Movie Himself
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2013
Tangerines
Movie Margus
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2012
Demons
Movie Stranger
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2012
Mushrooming
Movie Gas Station Attendant
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2012
Purge
Movie Father
- 2010
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2006
Mindless
Movie Director
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2002
Names in Marble
Movie Armored Train Commander
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2002
Burattino
Movie Director
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1994
Love for Three Oranges
Movie Pantalone
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1993
Marraskuun harmaa valo
Movie Tõnu Valjus
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1993
Prompter
Movie Robert
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1991
For Crazies Only
Movie
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1990
Sunday Only
Movie
