Elmo Nüganen
Date of birth: 1962-02-15
Place of birth: Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]
Known for: Directing
Also known as:
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.
Movie Credits
Mushrooming
2012-09-21
Politician Aadu Kägu goes to the mushroom forest with his wife Viivi to rest his nerves from the rep
Names in Marble
2002-11-01
Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country's go
Love for Three Oranges
1994-09-12
"Love for Three Oranges" is the first play by Carlo Gozzi (December 13, 1720 - April 4, 1806). He wr
Tangerines
2013-10-17
War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In
Purge
2012-09-07
Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people wer
August välja
2014-01-08
A short film about an old actress Leida Rammo who tries to complete an unfinished theatre house proj
Demons
2012-11-09
When Joko, Ants and Reeda, all in their own good reasons, first enter a casino, they can't possibly
Conversation
2022-11-14
The Old Woman lives in a deep Estonian forest, alone and isolated. Her parents came here to settle t
Marraskuun harmaa valo
1993-04-23
Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is awa
Portugal
2018-04-12
Karina and Martin are in a pleasent relation where everyday life flows in an effortlessly accustomed
Dawn of War
2020-10-06
A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering th
Prompter
1993-04-19
The last film directed by Kaljo Kiisk has been dedicated to theatre and the people in theatre. You a
Sunday Only
1990-05-20
50s quiet Estonian town. After a long separation, two brothers met in their parents' house. The youn
For Crazies Only
1991-02-18
A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful married R
Father, Son and Holy Theatre
2010-01-19
Alar Sudak alias Elaan is the don Quijote of Estonian theatre - predestined to eternal loneliness. S
One-Dimensional Man
2025-09-26
Raul's father Viktor, a Soviet-era Estonian militia officer, shaped his son with communist ideology.
Rebel with a Bow Tie
2025-01-31
Jaan Tootsen’s documentary follows President Toomas Hendrik Ilves in the last year and a half of his
Serafima
In a 1960s Soviet psychiatric hospital, Serafima, a traumatized woman bearing both physical and ment