Lennart Meri

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-03-29 (77 years old)

Deathday

2006-03-14

Place of Birth

Tallinn, Estonia

Lennart Meri

Biography

Lennart Georg Meri (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈlenˑɑrt ˈgeorg ˈmeri]; March 29, 1929 – March 14, 2006) was an Estonian politician, writer, and film director. He served as the second president of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was among the leaders of the movement to restore Estonian independence from the Soviet Union. Meri was born in Tallinn, a son of the Estonian diplomat and later Shakespeare translator Georg Meri, and Estonian Swedish mother Alice-Brigitta Engmann. With his family, Lennart left Estonia at an early age and studied abroad, in nine different schools and in four different languages. His warmest memories were from his school ...

Acting

2006

The Singing Revolution

as Self (archive footage)

2015

Those Who Dare

as Self (archive footage)

1989

Son of Torum

as Himself

Production

1972

1986

1989

Son of Torum

as Director

1997

The Shaman

as Director

1970

The Last Relic

as Script Editor

1969

Werewolf

as Script Editor

1966

Pikk Street

as Writer

1970

Between Three Plagues

as Script Editor

1967

The Midday Ferry

as Script Editor

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