Elmo Nüganen

Director

Elmo Nüganen

Born February 15, 1962 in Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]8 films

Elmo Nüganen (born February 15, 1962 in Jõhvi) is an Estonian theatre director, film director, and actor.

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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.

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1944 posterFirst watch194420156.9Their style at its most typical, and among their best-rated work.The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers.View film

Filmography

8 films as director
  1. 2023Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's DaughterDirector
  2. 2022Melchior the Apothecary: The GhostDirector
  3. 2022Melchior the ApothecaryDirector
  4. 20151944Director
  5. 2006MindlessDirector
  6. 2002Names in MarbleDirector
  7. 2002BurattinoDirector
  8. 1994Love for Three OrangesDirector