Lembit Ulfsak

Lembit Ulfsak

Birthday: 1947-07-04

Place of Birth: Koeru, Järva County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Biography: Lembit Ulfsak (July 4, 1947 in Koeru – March 22, 2017) was an Estonian actor and director. Ulfsak spent his childhood in Räpina, where he also finished the 8th grade. In 1966, he graduated from Tallinn 7th Secondary School. From 1966 to 1970, he studied at the Tallinn State Conservatory's Department of Performing Arts (4th class). Ulfsak worked mainly at the Estonian SSR State Youth Theatre and Drama Theatre, as well as at Tallinnfilm. In addition to his theatre work, he acted in many films, the most internationally known of which are the leading roles in the films "The Legend of Till" (1976) and the Georgian-Estonian collaboration film "Tangerines" (2013), which was among the five best foreign language films in 2014 before the Oscar and Golden Globe awards. From 1972 to 1973, he sang in the Band Amor Trio. On June 1, 2019, a memorial bench installed in Ulfsak's honor was unveiled near his coastal home on the western shore of the Kakumäe Peninsula.

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The End of a Beautiful Epoch
The End of a Beautiful Epoch

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov....

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While There is Time
While There is Time

The story of two Cossacks from Zaporizhzhya Sich, who had been taken as prisoners by the Turks, but ...

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Marshall of Revolution
Marshall of Revolution

Soviet propaganda film about the Red Army commander, revolutionary M.V.Frunze. The movie covers the ...

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Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Kovalevskaya

A film about the remarkable life of Russian mathematician Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891),...

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Craving Passion
Craving Passion

A detective investigating the murder of a rich widow stumbles into a dangerous supernatural struggle...

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Tear of the Prince of Darkness
Tear of the Prince of Darkness

Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to...

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Marraskuun harmaa valo
Marraskuun harmaa valo

Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is awa...

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Death Under Sail
Death Under Sail

Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his...

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Red Mercury
Red Mercury

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Landing
Landing

Reet loves her long-distance coxswain husband Rein, but the long separations have tortured her. It s...

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Windy Beach
Windy Beach

The coastal people of Kaugatoma set out to build their own ship to earn a living independent of the ...

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Amber Wings
Amber Wings

A story about love between two people who accidentally met in old Tallinn....

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The Power of Fear
The Power of Fear

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Mary Poppins, Goodbye
Mary Poppins, Goodbye

A family hires a babysitter who seems to possess magical powers....

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Mister Blot's Academy
Mister Blot's Academy

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In Search for Captain Grant
In Search for Captain Grant

Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Gra...

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Grey Legend
Grey Legend

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Lotte and the Moonstone Secret
Lotte and the Moonstone Secret

Plucky young Lotte embarks on an adventure with her uncle Klaus to solve the mystery of three stones...

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Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Lamb in the Down Right Corner

A warm movie about two boys, who discover a secret of a painting that was considered to be lost. The...

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The Lady in the Car
The Lady in the Car

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I Was Here
I Was Here

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Ladybirds' Christmas
Ladybirds' Christmas

Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human family’s house together with a C...

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A Woman Heats the Sauna
A Woman Heats the Sauna

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The Coincidence of Circumstance
The Coincidence of Circumstance

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Kiri Giuliale
Kiri Giuliale

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The Joys of Midlife
The Joys of Midlife

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Tangerines
Tangerines

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186 Kilometers
186 Kilometers

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Время вашей жизни
Время вашей жизни

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Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg
Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg

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Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...
Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...

Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a n...

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Far from Sunset Boulevard
Far from Sunset Boulevard

The thirties, the heyday of Soviet film production. The story of the famed couple's glory — a filmma...

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Saamuel's Internet
Saamuel's Internet

Part of the puppet film trilogy "Gabbage Head," the film features the main character - the stubborn ...

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Don Juan in Tallinn
Don Juan in Tallinn

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Ask the Dead About the Price of Death
Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communis...

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Lotte from Gadgetville
Lotte from Gadgetville

Somewhere in Europe by a great sea stands a small village, where inventing all manner of domestic ga...

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Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady
Kid Detectives and the Secret of the White Lady

In a quiet resort town Haapsalu four kids are spending their summer holidays together. Suddenly they...

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The Fencer
The Fencer

Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland,...

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Mat the Cat
Mat the Cat

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Nazis and Blondes
Nazis and Blondes

Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in L...

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Temptation of B.
Temptation of B.

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The Wedding
The Wedding

An elderly man saves the life of an alien who is capable of time travel. They go back in time to the...

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Inspector Goole
Inspector Goole

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The Heart of the Bear
The Heart of the Bear

A young Estonian goes to the Siberian Taiga to live as a hunter in a remote forest hut. He hopes to ...

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The Firewater
The Firewater

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Let Him Perform
Let Him Perform

A group of thieves plans a daring heist to steal a valuable diamond from a wealthy businessman....

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Secret of the Blackbirds
Secret of the Blackbirds

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A Victim of Science
A Victim of Science

A satirical comedy about the monotonous, boring and largely meaningless life of small officials in a...

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The Eternal Road
The Eternal Road

Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing polit...

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Regina
Regina

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Blue Dress
Blue Dress

Surreal worlds, elegiac images and romantic letters form a stream of suppressed memories. A young ma...

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Peter Pan
Peter Pan

The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where...

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I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here
I'm Not a Tourist, I Live Here

The film is about one of the greatest social hot spots in Estonia during the Soviet times when apart...

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Good Hands
Good Hands

The Estonians and Latvians join hands in this jointly produced Baltic comedy about love and theft ce...

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Come Back, Lumumba
Come Back, Lumumba

Aurora, the new head of the culture centre in a small Estonian town, and her ward, nicknamed Lumumba...

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Doubles
Doubles

A musical comedy about singer Toomas Aringus and rally driver Mati Uibo, whom journalist Tiina Salum...

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Faulty Brides
Faulty Brides

Rich nephews and beautiful girls can not get married, especially when neither of them have actually ...

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Spring in the Forest
Spring in the Forest

Based on the novel “Ukuaru” by Veera Saar, a story about Minna, a young woman who has to make choice...

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Daisy Petal Game
Daisy Petal Game

A three episode film consisting of three short films: "Promenade", "Poacher" and "Tattoo". The actio...

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Doctor Stockmann
Doctor Stockmann

Toomas Stockmann, the head doctor of a water clinic built in a small town by the sea, discovers that...

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White curse
White curse

The holiday season in the mountains is in full swing. The message of the head of the avalanche stati...

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Contract of the Century
Contract of the Century

In order to negotiate with West German financiers about the construction of the gas pipeline between...

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The Price of Head
The Price of Head

Commissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police....

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Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter
Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter

Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also ...

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That Lost Road
That Lost Road

Teenager Juulius loses his mother and goes to live with Taavi, a wise fisherman. Juulius gets to kno...

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For Crazies Only
For Crazies Only

A young man is taken to a small town hospital after a suicide attempt. Rita is a beautiful married R...

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Rat Trap
Rat Trap

During an election campaign, a large sum of money goes missing at an Estonian politician's home part...

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Brilliant idea
Brilliant idea

He and she met by chance in a backwater hotel, poor. In their hunger ideas an idea is born — "catch ...

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Touched by the Unknown
Touched by the Unknown

Mati is an assistant in TV studio. Patiently he has waited for his time to become a TV star but seem...

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Cobra
Cobra

The series is dedicated to the tax police, and to the employees of the elite secret division “COBRA”...

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What Are Our Years!
What Are Our Years!

Two cronies Tash and Nazar work as drivers on long-haul flights. They are young, and it seems to the...

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Lack of Wind
Lack of Wind

Taavi is worried about the lack of wind that won't let him do his daily job as a fisherman. But he i...

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Little Requiem for Harmonica
Little Requiem for Harmonica

Students Jaan and Heiki in 1972, inexplicably, cross the river of time and arrive in 1944, the year ...

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A Tale of a Chekist
A Tale of a Chekist

At the end of 1943, during the occupation in Odessa, a new specialist Kraft arrives at the shipyard ...

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The Legend of Till
The Legend of Till

Based on the novel by Charles de Coster "The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak, and their...

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Love Is a Deadly Game
Love Is a Deadly Game

Ihor is a famous photographer whose works are published in a number of magazines and presented at in...

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Candles in the Dark
Candles in the Dark

Candles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Repu...

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Juhan Liiv's Story
Juhan Liiv's Story

A unique film adaptation of Juhan Liiv's poetry, where literary symbols in poetry are connected with...

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Lonely Island
Lonely Island

Five stories and many more lives that are affected, they flow by each other and sometimes intersect....

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My Wife Became a Grandmother
My Wife Became a Grandmother

A middle-aged literature teacher who devotes his free time to poetry is used to being the center of ...

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Assol
Assol

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The Song of the Summer
The Song of the Summer

While suffering creative and emotional crisis, singer Katrin gives a poor performance at the pop mus...

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The Smacking Sea
The Smacking Sea

The Smacking Sea is a film about the work of traditional seal hunters on the smacking Baltic Sea and...

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Brothers: The Return
Brothers: The Return

Hoffa floats ashore in Estonia after his stolen getaway boat has exploded. He tries to begin a new l...

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The Dragon Hunt
The Dragon Hunt

The Central American country of Guadiana has decided to embark on a new path of development. The US ...

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Sižeta pagrieziens
Sižeta pagrieziens

At fifty years of age, film director Ivars Jansons has been unlucky in both his personal life and hi...

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Black Ceiling
Black Ceiling

Seven leading animation artists chose one poem from each Estonian poet according to their own taste ...

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Father
Father

Story about a single father who restricts every aspect of his life and tries to raise his son in the...

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Boomerang
Boomerang

Black public figure Jim Taylor is pursued by the police. He dies from a bullet in the head. In a pri...

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Cabbage Head
Cabbage Head

A parody of a classical action film. The sequence of events is launched by a huge cabbage growing on...

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Murder on the 31st Floor
Murder on the 31st Floor

Police officer Jensen orders the evacuation of a leading media group's office building after a bomb ...

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The Year of the Good Child
The Year of the Good Child

Roma Rogov was a talented and gifted boy — something that becomes clear by blowing up his teacher. A...

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