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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
My Younger Brother
as Matti
The Wild Swans
as Chamber Master
What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?
as Party Guest
Days of June
as Nils
Dance Around the Steam Boiler
Visit of an Old Lady
as Claire's Husband
Nazis and Blondes
as Self
In One Hundred Years in May
as Jaan Tõnisson
The Red Violin
as Veski
Yachts at Sea
as Juuksur
