Acting credits
18
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Elmo Nüganen
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 22Series: 2Crew credits: 8
TMDB ID: 137688
IMDb ID: nm0639297
Known for: Directing
Born: February 15, 1962
Age: 64
Place of birth: Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1990 - 2025
Years active: 36
Average TMDB rating: 7.09
Wikidata: Q11857537
Other jobs
Director (6)Producer (1)Screenplay (1)
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.
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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Elmo Nüganen.
4.0
One-Dimensional Man
as Investigator
2025 Movie
Rebel with a Bow Tie
as Self (uncredited)
2025 Movie
6.4
Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter
Director
2023 Movie
Conversation
2022 Movie
6.5
Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost
Director
2022 Movie
6.8
Melchior the Apothecary
Director
2022 Movie
6.1
Dawn of War
as Major Kurg
2020 Movie
3.5
Portugal
as Boss
2018 Movie
6.9
1944
Director
2015 Movie
7.7
Tangerines
as Margus
2013 Movie
8.0
Demons
as Stranger
2012 Movie
5.8
Mushrooming
as Gas Station Attendant
2012 Movie
6.8
Purge
as Father
2012 Movie
Father, Son and Holy Theatre
2010 Movie
4.9
Mindless
Director
2006 Movie
5.9
Names in Marble
as Armored Train Commander
2002 Movie
Burattino
Director
2002 Movie
7.8
Love for Three Oranges
as Pantalone
1994 Movie
5.8
Marraskuun harmaa valo
as Tõnu Valjus
1993 Movie
2.7
Prompter
as Robert
1993 Movie
4.0
For Crazies Only
1991 Movie
Sunday Only
1990 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Elmo Nüganen.
