Name
Arvo Iho
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1949-06-21 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Rakvere, Viru County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Lääne-Viru County, Estonia]
Biography
Arvo Iho (born June 21, 1949) is an Estonian film director, cinematographer, actor and photographer, who has worked in the areas of documentary and drama.
Born in Rakvere, Iho worked as a photographer and assistant for Tallinnfilm before studying cinematography at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Iho acted as assistant director to Andrei Tarkovsky on the 1979 film Stalker. He went on to work as a cameraman for Tallinnfilm in the 1980s.
In 1985, Iho co-directed the feature film Games for School–Age Children with Leida Laius, also acting as director of cinematography, and in 1987 made his solo directorial debut with The Birdwatcher, about the relationship between a poacher and an ornithologist. He followed this with Only for the Insane (1990). In 2001 he made The Heart of the Bear, based on the Nikolai Baturin novel, and in 2006 made Gooseberries.
As a photographer, Iho has exhibited nationally and internationally.
As of 2017, Iho was a professor at Tallinn University's Baltic Film and Media School.
Known For
5.1
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors....
6.1
16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage whi...
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A young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He...
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Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father...
- 1983 Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter as Worker
- 1998 Killing Tartu as Arnold Kere
- 1979 Nest of Winds as Juhan Piir
- 2012 Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky as Self
- 1973 Power of Dream
- 2020 Cursed Films ( 1 episode ) as Self
