Arvo Kruusement

Directing

Born: 1928-04-20
From: Undla, Estonia
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.1

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.

Awards & Nominations3 won · 0 nominated

🏆 Won

Prize of Soviet Estonia

1972
🏆 Won

Merited Art Worker of Estonian SSR

🏆 Won

Order of the White Star, 3rd Class