Elmo Nüganen

Known for DirectingBorn 1962-02-15 (age 64)Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Sunday Only

Demons

Tangerines

Love for Three Oranges

1944

Melchior the Apothecary

Purge

Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost

August välja

Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter

Dawn of War

Marraskuun harmaa valo

Names in Marble

Mushrooming

Portugal

Mindless

For Crazies Only

One-Dimensional Man

Prompter

Serafima

Rebel with a Bow Tie

Kalamaja Blues

Conversation

Lotte's Stories

Father, Son and Holy Theatre

Burattino