Peeter Simm

Peeter Simm was born in Kiviõli on 24 February 1953 and graduated in 1976 from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. He worked at the Tallinnfilm studio from 1975 to 1993, at first as an assistant, directed in 1977 one of the three shorts in a collection supervised by Andrei Tarkovsky, and founded his own studio in 1993. He also made an adventure film for children that generations have loved, a life of the singer Georg Ots and the first Estonian film selected at Cannes, taught directing at Tallinn University and died on 12 March 2026, aged seventy-three.

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• CinemaThe Ideal LandscapeIdeaalmaastikPeeter Simm · 1981Cinema