Elmo Nüganen

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1962-02-15 (62 years old)

Place of Birth Jõhvi, Estonian SRR, USSR [now Estonia]

Elmo Nüganen

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

2022
2015
1944

as Director

2006
Mindless

as Director

2002
Names in Marble

as Director

2002
Burattino

as Director

1994

Actor

2020
Dawn of War

as Major Kurg

2018
Portugal

as Boss

2017
Lotte's Stories

as Lotte's Grandfather

2014
August välja

as Himself

2013
Tangerines

as Margus

2012
Demons

as Stranger

2012
Mushrooming

as Gas Station Attendant

2012
Purge

as Father

2002
Names in Marble

as Armored Train Commander

1994
1993
Marraskuun harmaa valo

as Tõnu Valjus

1993
Prompter

as Robert

Writer

2022
2006
Mindless

as Screenplay

2002
Names in Marble

as Screenplay

Producer

1994