Jaan Tooming

Jaan Tooming

Birthday: 1946-03-28

Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Biography: Jaan Tooming (March 28, 1946 – April 5, 2024) was an Estonian actor, theatre and film director and writer. In 1968 he graduated from the Tallinn State Conservatory (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre). From 1969 to 2009 he was an actor and stage director in Vanemuine theatre in Tartu.

Movies

The New Devil of Hellsbottom
The New Devil of Hellsbottom

Jaan Tooming's adaptation of the novel by A.H. Tammsaare....

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Teekond mäe südamesse
Teekond mäe südamesse

In a short film about his brother, actor and director Jaan Tooming, Peeter Tooming transports him fr...

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Colourful Dreams
Colourful Dreams

Little Kati spends her summer at her grandma's. Her playmates are the village boys and the whole cou...

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Endless Day
Endless Day

Among Tooming's filmic works, Endless Day provides perhaps the most eloquent material for investigat...

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November
November

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, a...

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Between Three Plagues
Between Three Plagues

The story of Balthasar Russow, an Estonian pastor from the 16th century, his life and life's work - ...

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Grisha
Grisha

An up-close look into the life of the often misunderstood movie director Grigori Kromanov through th...

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The Broken Horseshoe
The Broken Horseshoe

Based on the novel by Jules Verne "Drama in Livonia". French aeronaut Jules Ardan, traveling in a ho...

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