Director

Peeter Simm

Directing

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Directed movies: 22Directed series: 0All crew credits: 24

TMDB ID: 137842

IMDb ID: nm0799595

Known for: Directing

Born: February 24, 1953

Died: March 12, 2026

Age: 73

Place of birth: Kiviõli, Kiviõli District, Tallinn Oblast, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1974 - 2022

Years active: 49

Wikidata: Q3739177

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Director (21)Assistant Director (1)Writer (2)

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Biography

Peeter Simm (born February 24, 1953; Kiviõli – March 12, 2026) was an Estonian film director. Peeter Simm studied at Nõo Secondary School in a physics class and graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (cum laude) in 1976 with a degree in feature film directing. From 1975 to 1993, Simm worked at Tallinnfilm, first as an assistant director, then as a feature film director. In 1993, he founded the studio Lege Artis Film. As a director, he collaborated with many studios. He also directed in the theater, made language training and advertising films, television programs, etc. He worked as a visiting professor of film directing at the Baltic Institute of Film, Media, Arts and Communication.