Arvo Kruusement

Arvo Kruusement was born on 20 April 1928 in the village of Hulja, near Undla, into a peasant family of Virumaa. In 1947 he graduated from the technical school of accounting in Rakvere, went through the Tallinn theatre institute and in 1953 graduated from the Estonian studio of the Moscow institute of theatre art. An actor at the Tallinn Drama Theatre and a trainee of Georgy Tovstonogov in Leningrad, he directed the Pärnu theatre from 1962 to 1964, was a director at the Tallinnfilm studio from 1965 to 1991 and died on 9 September 2026, at the age of ninety-eight.

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