Kersti Kreismann
Kersti Kreismann (born January 25, 1947) is an Estonian actress. Kreissmann graduated from Kilingi-Nõmme High School in 1965. From 1965 to 1968, she studied Estonian philology at University of Tartu. In 1972, she graduated from the Tallinn Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre), studying acting under instruction of actor and theatre pedagogue Voldemar Panso. Among her graduating classmates were Tõnis Rätsep, Ivo Eensalu, Vello Janson, Rein Kotkas, Helle Meri (née Pihlak), Katrin Kumpan, Martin Veinmann, and Juhan Viiding. Afterward, she began an engagement as an actress at the Estonian Drama Theatre. Kreismann has played in radio drama, television broadcasting and TV series (Laxons 1993-1995, M Club 1996-1998, Home in the Middle of the City from 2003). She has also acted in films (for example, Christmas in Vigala in 1980). In October 1980, Kreismann was a signatory of the Letter of 40 Intellectuals, a public letter in which forty prominent Estonian intellectuals defended the Estonian language and protested the Russification policies of the Kremlin in Estonia. The signatories also expressed their unease against Republic-level government in harshly dealing with youth protests in Tallinn that were sparked a week earlier due to the banning of a public performance of the punk rock band Propeller. Kreismann is the mother of actor Andres Raag.
Friends, Comrades
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Movie pageThe Salmons: 25 Years Later
as Sirje SalmonA lot has happened in a quarter of a century, but the Salmons have remained who they were -...
Movie pageThe Curse of the Werewolf
as EndlaLiina is a young actress at Vanemuise Theatre who gets Tiina's part in the new, postmodernist...
Movie pageChristmas in Vigala
as Liisa LaipmannThe Christmas of 1905 in Vigala is not a peaceful holiday. The manor house has just been...
Movie pageThe Graveyard Keeper's Daughter
as Teacher PurgaA snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: 8...
Movie pageThree August Days
as GrandmotherIn the midst of the political upheaval of the early 1990s in Soviet Union, an Estonian girl and...
Movie pagePrompter
as ActressThe last film directed by Kaljo Kiisk has been dedicated to theatre and the people in theatre....
Movie pageRevenge Office
as VilmaA group of women create a organisation named "Kättemaksukontor" to fight for the rights of women...
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