Theodor Luts

Theodor Luts was born in Palamuse on 14 August 1896, the younger brother of the writer Oskar Luts. He graduated in 1918 from the commercial gymnasium in St Petersburg, fought in the War of Independence with Kuperjanov's partisans, at Paju and Võnnu, was a staff officer in Tartu and a dance teacher, and taught himself film-making in Paris and Berlin. He made films in Estonia from 1926 to 1932, was then cinematographer on nearly thirty films in Finland, moved to Sweden in 1944, then to Brazil in 1946, and died in São Paulo on 24 September 1980.

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• CinemaNoored kotkadTheodor Luts · 1927Cinema