Elmo Nüganen
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1962-02-15 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Jõhvi, Estonian SRR, USSR [now Estonia]
Also known As
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Elmo Nüganen
Biography
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. Nüga...
Acting
2012
as Gas Station Attendant
2002
as Armored Train Commander
1994
as Pantalone
2013
as Margus
2012
as Father
2014
as Himself
2012
as Stranger
2022
1993
as Tõnu Valjus
2018
as Boss
2020
as Major Kurg
1993
as Robert
1990
1991
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as Investigator
2025
as Self (uncredited)
Production
2006
as Director
2006
as Screenplay
2002
as Screenplay
2002
as Director
2022
as Director
2023
1994
as Producer
2015
as Director
2022
as Director
2002
as Director
1994
as Director
2023
as Screenplay
2022
as Screenplay
2022
as Screenplay
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