Name
Elmo Nüganen
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1962-02-15 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]
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.
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.
Known For
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War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tange...
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A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with unc...
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Politician Aadu Kägu goes to the mushroom forest with his wife Viivi to rest his nerves f...
- 2012 Mushrooming as Gas Station Attendant
- 2002 Names in Marble as Armored Train Commander
- 1994 Love for Three Oranges as Pantalone
- 2013 Tangerines as Margus
- 2012 Purge as Father
- 2014 August välja as Himself
- 2012 Demons as Stranger
- 2022 Conversation
- 1993 Marraskuun harmaa valo as Tõnu Valjus
- 2018 Portugal as Boss
- 2020 Dawn of War as Major Kurg
- 1990 Sunday Only
- 1993 Prompter as Robert
- 1991 For Crazies Only
- 2010 Father, Son and Holy Theatre
- 2025 One-Dimensional Man as Investigator
- 2025 Rebel with a Bow Tie as Self (uncredited)
- 2027 Serafima
- 2017 Lotte's Stories ( 1 episode ) as Lotte's Grandfather
- 2023 Kalamaja Blues ( 1 episode ) as Neighbor
