Arvo Kruusement
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday20 April 1928
Died9 September 2026 (age 98)
Place of birthUndla, Viru County, Estonia [now Lääne-Viru County]
Known credits24
Biography
Arvo Kruusement (April 20, 1928 – September 9, 2026) was an Estonian actor, theatre and film director who has made some of Estonia's classic novels into films; Spring (1969), Summer (1976), and Autumn (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. 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 …
Nazis and Blondes
2008 · Self
Visit of an Old Lady
2006 · Claire's Husband
Autumn
1990 · Director
Dance Around the Steam Boiler
1988
The Wild Swans
1987 · Chamber Master
In One Hundred Years in May
1987 · Jaan Tõnisson
The Gang
1986 · Director
The R Document
1985
The Smacking Sea
1981 · Director
The Smacking Sea
1981 · Screenplay
Spanish Version
1980
A Woman Heats the Sauna
1979 · Director
Võsakurat
1976 · Writer
Summer
1976 · Director
Indrek
1976 · Screenplay
The Red Violin
1975 · Veski
Don Juan in Tallinn
1973 · Director
Spring
1970 · Director
Postmark from Vienna
1968 · First Assistant Director
Letters from the Island of the Insane
1967 · First Assistant Director
What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?
1967 · Party Guest (uncredited)
I Am Bereza
1964 · Nemetskiy mayor
My Younger Brother
1962 · Matti
Days of June
1958 · Nils
Yachts at Sea
1955 · Juuksur
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