Elmo Nüganen

Born: 1962-02-15

Elmo Nüganen (born February 15, 1962 in Jõhvi) is an Estonian theatre director, film director, and actor. He has been the artistic director of the Tallinn City Theatre since 1992. He was a graduate of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1988 and then a professor at the academy in 1998–2002 and 2008–2012. He directed the war films Names in Marble from 2002 and 1944 from 2015. Names in Marble was seen by more than 168,000 people in Estonia and was selected for the 2003 Taormina Film Fest, while 1944 had the highest opening-week audience numbers in Estonian film history and became the country's submission for the Academy Awards. Nüganen has received multiple awards for his work in theatre, including the Estonian Annual Theatre Award for Best Director in 1992, 1995, 2000, 2007, and 2010, and the Estonian National Cultural Award in 1996, 1999, and 2009.


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Tangerines

as Margus
Released: 2013-10-16

War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines....

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Purge

as Father
Released: 2012-09-07

Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people...

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Dawn of War

as Major Kurg
Released: 2020-10-06

A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with...

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Names in Marble

as Armored Train Commander
Released: 2002-11-01

Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the...

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Marraskuun harmaa valo

as Tõnu Valjus
Released: 1993-04-23

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is...

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For Crazies Only

as uncredited
Released: 1991-02-18

A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful...

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Mushrooming

as Gas Station Attendant
Released: 2012-09-21

Politician Aadu Kägu goes to the mushroom forest with his wife Viivi to rest his nerves from the...

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Portugal

as Boss
Released: 2018-04-12

Karina and Martin are in a pleasent relation where everyday life flows in an effortlessly...

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Prompter

as Robert
Released: 1993-04-19

The last film directed by Kaljo Kiisk has been dedicated to theatre and the people in theatre....

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Love for Three Oranges

as Pantalone
Released: 1994-09-12

"Love for Three Oranges" is the first play by Carlo Gozzi (December 13, 1720 - April 4, 1806)....

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Conversation

as uncredited
Released: 2022-11-14

The Old Woman lives in a deep Estonian forest, alone and isolated. Her parents came here to...

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Demons

as Stranger
Released: 2012-11-09

When Joko, Ants and Reeda, all in their own good reasons, first enter a casino, they can't...

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Sunday Only

as uncredited
Released: 1990-05-20

50s quiet Estonian town. After a long separation, two brothers met in their parents' house. The...

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Father, Son and Holy Theatre

as uncredited
Released: 2010-01-19

Alar Sudak alias Elaan is the don Quijote of Estonian theatre - predestined to eternal...

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Lotte's Stories

as Lotte's Grandfather
First aired: 2017-10-17

Lotte together with her friends Bruno and Albert, ventures and solves exciting detective puzzles.

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