Arvo Kruusement

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1928-04-20 (96 years old)

Place of Birth Undla, Estonia

Also Known As Круусемент Арво Антонович, Крууземент

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

Director

1990
Autumn

as Director

1985
The Gang

as Director

1981
The Smacking Sea

as Director

1979
1976
Summer

as Director

1972
1970
Spring

as Director

1968
Postmark from Vienna

as First Assistant Director

1966
Letters from the Island of the Insane

as First Assistant Director

Actor

2008
2006
Visit of an Old Lady

as Claire's Husband

1987
The Wild Swans

as Chamber Master

1987
In One Hundred Years in May

as Jaan Tõnisson

1975
1964
Я - "Берёза"

as Nemetskiy mayor

1962
1958
Days of June

as Nils

1955
Yachts at Sea

as Juuksur

Writer

1981
1976
Võsakurat

as Writer

1976
Indrek

as Screenplay