Jüri Järvet
Birthday: 1919-06-18
Place of Birth: Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
Biography: Jüri Järvet (June 18, 1919 – July 5, 1995) was an Estonian actor. His name sometimes appears as Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet, an incorrect back-transliteration from the Russian transliteration Юри Евгеньевич Ярвет. His birthname was Georgi Kuznetsov, and he took the Estonian form in 1938. Järvet is best known in the West for the role of Dr. Snaut in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, but he played in numerous other films both in Russian and his native Estonian. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1975, and the USSR State Prize in 1981. Järvet played the title role in a powerful version of King Lear (1971) filmed on bleak landscapes in his native Estonia by Russian director Grigori Kozintsev and released in 1970. Kozintsev shared the screenwriting credit with Boris Pasternak; the score was by Dmitri Shostakovich. His son Jüri Järvet Jr. has also acted in several movies, including All My Lenins and Khrustalyov, My Car!.
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Solaris
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death ...
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King Lear
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their ...
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The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
The 3rd part of the famous trilogy by Alexandre Dumas about d'Artagnan and his 3 friends Athos, Port...
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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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City Unplugged
In August, 1991, Estonia reclaims its independence from the USSR and brings to its national bank nea...
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Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everythin...
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The Visitor
Seven times seven Deaths come to earth to fulfill their mission - to take with them the souls of the...
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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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The Adventurer
Toomas Nipernaadi is seen roaming the rural landscape, going from village to village looking for the...
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Summer
In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agricu...
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The Dead Season
Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works ...
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Under the Same Roof
Mari has successfully led a collective farm in 1950s and fulfilled all tasks given from the authorit...
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The Last Relic
A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants...
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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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Legends of Tallinn
Tallinn is known for its medieval old town. However, not only the old houses and streets have been p...
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The New Devil of Hellsbottom
The way Saint Peter explains it to the Devil who's knocking on Heaven's door to collect his share of...
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Actor Joller
Toomas Joller has been an actor for twenty years. Joller is popular and has been awarded the honorar...
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Vernanda
A passenger steps off his train during a short stop in a small town called Vernanda in order to buy ...
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The Milkman of Mäeküla
A baron gives a poor peasant a well-paid job of a milkman but for reward he has to accept his belove...
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Dangerous Games
The capital of Estonia is occupied by Germans. Three local boys plan to blow up the cinema where the...
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Madness
Before the end of the Second World War, a special commando marches into a mental hospital located in...
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The Accident
A reputable employee of a large firm has his car break down on the road. A repair team has been call...
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The Watchmaker and the Chicken
In 1913, chance brings together a young high school teacher Yurkevich, his first love Lida, a wealth...
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A Fairy Tale Told at Night
A story based on the tales "The Marble Heart" and "The Spessart Inn" by Wilhelm Hauff....
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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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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
A three episode film consisting of three short films: "Promenade", "Poacher" and "Tattoo". The actio...
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The Committee of 19
UN's The Committee of 19 sends six scientists to investigate a biological outbreak in Africa....
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Lurich
Georg Lurich was a world-famous Estonian professional wrestler in the early 1900-s who became a lege...
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Peace Avenue
On Christmas Eve, the residents of Peace Avenue discover that there are military guards in front of ...
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Traces
Heino Raagen and his war comrades begin a new battle while arriving at their home village - establis...
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Forest Captain
Sailing to South America, the sailing ship "Fortuna" gets stuck in a calm in the middle of the Atlan...
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Uninvited Guests
Four Estonians who have escaped to Sweden during the war return to Soviet Estonia in the 1950s. The ...
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Girl in Black
Young Saale, the girl in black with her small suitcase, comes to live with her aunt in a fishermen's...
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Face to Face
The writer Stepanov became aware that the sketch of Vrubel's painting will be sold at the Sotheby's ...
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The Red Violin
When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the w...
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Indrek
Based on the second part of the pentalogy "Truth and Justice" by Anton H. Tammsaare....
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Time to Live, Time to Love
Debora and Silver get into a serious car accident after a romantic night together. Silver escapes wi...
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Wild Violets
It is the year 1947. The war is over but Estonian forests are still hiding armoured men. When the me...
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Dance Around the Steam Boiler
The movie travels through the 20th century by monitoring a steam boiler. We see the history of Eston...
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An Unusual Story
A young investigator fresh from the university gets assigned an arson case. 18-year-old Epp-Kai has ...
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Hundiseaduse aegu
The love story of Liza Pesentak and the fearless patriot Melelave, who will go through a series of v...
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Andrus' Happiness
Andrus Laane comes from a fisherman's village. He dreams of becoming a captain to sail the seas but ...
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Laulu sõber
Tõnu, student of agronomy, is a trainee at a flourishing collective farm. He finds out that there ar...
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Surmatants
A historical costume drama where the fragments of the adventurous lives of Bernt Notke, one of the m...
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Luukas
The highlight of Elsbet's and Albert's day is their son's visit. Every day, the old couple serves fe...
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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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Gruz Bez Markirovki
The assistant captain of a foreign merchant ship, Chief, contacts an international drug cartel. He a...
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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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Echoes of the Past
The well-known scientist was a spy in Germany during the Great Patriotic War, and he managed to obta...
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