Jüri Järvet

Jüri Järvet

Born: June 18, 1919
Died: July 5, 1995
in Tallinn, Estonia
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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Legends of Tallinn
Title: Legends of Tallinn
Character: Old Mayor (voice)
Released: September 8, 1995
Type: Movie
Tallinn is known for its medieval old town. However, not only the old houses and streets have been preserved, we have also come down to ancient legends related to these places. The film is about the Oleviste Church and the mysterious craftsman who built one of the world's tallest towers for this church at one time.
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Candles in the Dark
Title: Candles in the Dark
Released: December 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Candles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Republic of Estonia. After she arrives, she finds that her father is part of the dissident anti-soviet underground. She soon find her self engulfed in the struggle with her father and a lot of new friends, and finds herself being hunted by the KGB.
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City Unplugged
Title: City Unplugged
Character: Anton
Released: June 6, 1993
Type: Movie
In August, 1991, Estonia reclaims its independence from the USSR and brings to its national bank nearly $1 billion in gold bullion hidden in Paris for 50 years. Russian mobsters have a bold plan to hijack the gold after shutting down the capital's power at midnight
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The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
Title: The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
Released: June 6, 1993
Type: Movie
The 3rd part of the famous trilogy by Alexandre Dumas about d'Artagnan and his 3 friends Athos, Porthos and Aramis.
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Marraskuun harmaa valo
Title: Marraskuun harmaa valo
Character: Old Man
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.
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Tear of the Prince of Darkness
Title: Tear of the Prince of Darkness
Character: Old Compositor
Released: March 6, 1993
Type: Movie
Tallinn, Estonia, days before outbreak of World War II. Hotel detective and Polish writer team up to find Tear of the Prince of Darkness, a legendary ring which can bring Satan’s rule over the world.
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He Will Receive
Title: He Will Receive
Character: Demoney
Released: August 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Время вашей жизни
Title: Время вашей жизни
Released: May 24, 1992
Type: Movie
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Peace Street
Title: Peace Street
Character: Jaak
Released: December 12, 1991
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, the residents of Peace Street discover that there are military guards in front of their houses. Soon they have to start showing their passports when entering their homes. The residents are told by the authorities that in order to keep the peace they have to be ready to co-operate. It is an order and people stick to it. It is heard that the foreign troops will leave when the snow will be gone - so it won't be long until the everyday life will be normal again. When spring arrives, not only the snow disappears but also lots of residents. Those who stay will look forward to the Midsummer Day.
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Philipp Traum
Title: Philipp Traum
Character: Father Peter
Released: June 6, 1989
Type: Movie
A story based on "The Mysterious Stranger" novel by Mark Twain.
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Dance Around the Steam Boiler
Title: Dance Around the Steam Boiler
Released: June 13, 1988
Type: Movie
The movie travels through the 20th century by monitoring a steam boiler. We see the history of Estonia through life, agricultural work and people at different times.
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Vernanda
Title: Vernanda
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Roman Baskin's debut as a film director is an allegorical story of a man (Sulev Luik) who happens to step out of a train in a small town named Vernanda. He buys some bread only to discover that it has got a bomb inside and "souvenirs" of this kind are the town's trademark. While the man wants desperately to get rid of the bomb the townsfolk is not amused by such rude behaviour.
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Litsom k litsu
Title: Litsom k litsu
Character: Золле
Released: August 2, 1986
Type: Movie
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Lurich
Title: Lurich
Character: Lawyer
Released: June 2, 1984
Type: Movie
Georg Lurich was a world-famous Estonian professional wrestler in the early 1900-s who became a legend already in his lifetime. He was called not only the world's best technique-wrestler but he was also a sports-philosopher, health and temperance activist, an efficient sports manager, a talent in acting, writing and chess, a "world's citizen" who spoke more than ten languages and an athlete with enormous popularity. At least 14 wrestling clubs in Europe and USA carried his name. This film is an unpretentious attempt to recall that unique man, the first world-famous Estonian.
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Капитан Фракасс
Title: Капитан Фракасс
Character: Матамор
Released: March 22, 1984
Type: Movie
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The Adventurer
Title: The Adventurer
Character: Siimon Vaa
Released: May 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Toomas Nipernaadi is seen roaming the rural landscape, going from village to village looking for the woman of his dreams. He wears a bedraggled white suit but generously pays for any lodging he needs or in one case, even buys a farm. Nipernaadi has a way with words and enchants those he meets with his wild stories about himself. Women find him appealing and the men are entertained as he moves from one locale to the next.
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A Fairy Tale Told at Night
Title: A Fairy Tale Told at Night
Character: Waldmännchen
Released: August 30, 1981
Type: Movie
A story based on the tales "The Marble Heart" and "The Spessart Inn" by Wilhelm Hauff.
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Гибель 31 отдела
Title: Гибель 31 отдела
Character: Карл Брэннер
Released: June 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Police officer Jensen orders the evacuation of a leading media group's office building after a bomb threat is made. There won't be any explosion, however, the media group sustains big losses because of the work stoppage and the management requires investigation of the case. Officer Jensen identifies six suspects, then finds out that he is being followed himself, especially when he gets involved in the obscure activities of the mysterious 31st department.
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Гибель 31 отдела
Title: Гибель 31 отдела
Character: Бен Готтлиб
Released: June 13, 1981
Type: Movie
Police officer Jensen orders the evacuation of a leading media group's office building after a bomb threat is made. There won't be any explosion, however, the media group sustains big losses because of the work stoppage and the management requires investigation of the case. Officer Jensen identifies six suspects, then finds out that he is being followed himself, especially when he gets involved in the obscure activities of the mysterious 31st department.
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Wild Violets
Title: Wild Violets
Character: Lipp
Released: June 30, 1980
Type: Movie
It is the year 1947. The war is over but Estonian forests are still hiding armoured men. When the message comes that Western spies will arrive to support the local bushwhackers, security officer Rein Taim starts to lead the counter operation of the Communist Secret Police in order to catch the Western diversionists and the leader of the Estonian bushwhackers.
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Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
Title: Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
Character: Alex Snewahr
Released: August 27, 1979
Type: Movie
The police get a call-out to a lonely hotel in the Alps. When an officer gets to the hotel everything seems to be alright. Suddenly, an avalanche cuts them off from the rest of the world and strange things start happening.
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The Visitor
Title: The Visitor
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Seven times seven Deaths come to earth to fulfill their mission - to take with them the souls of the people assigned to them. One of the novice Deaths is unable to complete the task, because he becomes more and more human after each person he meets.
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Daisy Petal Game
Title: Daisy Petal Game
Character: Oskar (segment "Poacher")
Released: December 5, 1977
Type: Movie
A three episode film consisting of three short films: "Promenade", "Poacher" and "Tattoo". The action of the films takes place in the 1930s in Estonia.
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Data Tutashkhia
Title: Data Tutashkhia
Character: Count Seged
Released: July 2, 1977
Type: Movie
A just man becomes an outlaw. He is pursued by the police over the years, while he tries to fight the injustice in the world, but he can't figure out the minds of his fellow men, and is often misunderstood.
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Time to Live, Time to Love
Title: Time to Live, Time to Love
Released: January 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Debora and Silver get into a serious car accident after a romantic night together. Silver escapes with a slight injury, but Debora's life is in danger and the doctors say there is no hope for her. Doctor Melts sees an opportunity in transplantation of dying Debora's kidneys to save the life of a professor who has a few weeks to live. However, the professor proposes a treatment for Debora that will exclude transplantation. The truth about the price of her life will change Debora's world.
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Title: Data Tutashkhia
Character: граф Сегеди
Released: December 26, 1976
Type: TV
A just man becomes an outlaw. He is pursued by the police over the years, while he tries to fight the injustice in the world, but he can't figure out the minds of his fellow men, and is often misunderstood.
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Summer
Title: Summer
Character: Toots' Father
Released: May 10, 1976
Type: Movie
In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agriculture. He wants to start reforming his father's farm, Ülesoo. At the same time, he's competing with Kiir to win the love of Teele. Teele has stated that she agrees to marry with a farmer only. So Kiir decides to go to Russia to learn agriculture too.
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Indrek
Title: Indrek
Character: Religion Teacher
Released: February 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Based on the second part of the pentalogy "Truth and Justice" by Anton H. Tammsaare.
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The Red Violin
Title: The Red Violin
Character: Peek
Released: January 20, 1975
Type: Movie
When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the world revolution is about to begin. His mission as a Red Violinist is to call the proletariat around the world to join with the revolution. It is only two things - music and revolution - that Eduard has dedicated himself to. His audience is enchanted by his performance and ignited by his ideas. With this knowledge, he travels Europe between the two world wars, accompanied by his faithful friends, his audience's admiration and the hostility of the authorities.
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Dangerous Games
Title: Dangerous Games
Character: Õline
Released: August 22, 1974
Type: Movie
The capital of Estonia is occupied by Germans. Three local boys plan to blow up the cinema where the German soldiers often spend time at. However, their plans will change when they accidentally meet a mysterious stranger. A complicated and dangerous game begins where the rules are not set by the schoolkids.
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The Accident
Title: The Accident
Character: Judge
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Spring in the Forest
Title: Spring in the Forest
Character: Minna's Father
Released: February 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on the novel “Ukuaru” by Veera Saar, a story about Minna, a young woman who has to make choices in the name of her true love, home, and the continuation of life.
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The Committee of 19
Title: The Committee of 19
Character: Techer
Released: April 17, 1972
Type: Movie
UN's The Committee of 19 sends six scientists to investigate a biological outbreak in Africa.
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Solaris
Title: Solaris
Character: Dr. Snaut
Released: March 20, 1972
Type: Movie
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
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Forest Captain
Title: Forest Captain
Character: Jõnn
Released: February 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Sailing to South America, the sailing ship "Fortuna" gets stuck in a calm in the middle of the Atlantic. Heat and thirst drive the team crazy, knives are already flashing and the wind is being conjured in the darkness of the night. Captain Kihnu Jõnn has to tame desperate men and trade with heavenly forces in order to bring the ship's crew to the destination port, who want to leave him there.
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Windy Beach
Title: Windy Beach
Character: Hollmann
Released: January 3, 1971
Type: Movie
The coastal people of Kaugatoma set out to build their own ship to earn a living independent of the baron's will. The baron does everything to prevent the venture, but still "Kaugatoma" raises its white sails. Unfortunately, the power of money turns out to be decisive both in the organization of joint activities and in the relations of the strong-natured captain Tõnis Tihu with the community and his loved ones. He abandons Liisu, with whom he has a son, and marries a wealthy widow. As a captain, he has the power to look after the welfare of the sailors, but he thinks more about his own safety. However, the winds of 1905 are already blowing over the sea.
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King Lear
Title: King Lear
Character: King Lear
Released: December 15, 1970
Type: Movie
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
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The Last Relic
Title: The Last Relic
Character: Brother Johannes (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1970
Type: Movie
A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled - there's a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a monastery chases for a relics of a holy Brigitte. A nobleman promises to get it if he gets beautiful Agnes as a reward. But she fells in love with a handsome adventurer. The monastery has to act shrewd now and play double game. The movie is still the best achievement of the Estonian cinema. Based on a novel.
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Madness
Title: Madness
Character: Windisch
Released: February 9, 1969
Type: Movie
The action takes place in a nameless country occupied by the German army at the time of World War II. In a small village there's an asylum. A squad of German soldiers arrives to take the insane people to a "walk in the forest". Just before they are ready to go to forest to kill the insane people, a Gestapo officer arrives and from his conversation with the doctor we can find out that there's an enemy agent hiding himself in the asylum. Officer Windisch must find the agent from 583 people and on his searches he is slowly starting to feel himself crazy too.
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The Dead Season
Title: The Dead Season
Character: Professor O'Reilly
Released: December 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development of which he began during WW2 experimenting on war prisoners. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who during the war escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together they must identify and stop him before he finishes and unleashes his weapon of mass destruction.
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Postmark from Vienna
Title: Postmark from Vienna
Character: Martin Roll
Released: January 10, 1968
Type: Movie
A comedy about two friends who made a bet over a rare postmark.
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Girl in Black
Title: Girl in Black
Released: February 3, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Milkman of Mäeküla
Title: The Milkman of Mäeküla
Character: Tõnu Prillup
Released: July 10, 1965
Type: Movie
A baron gives a poor peasant a well-paid job of a milkman but for reward he has to accept his beloved girl going to the mansion from time to time. Does the wealth outweigh the honor and conscience?
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The New Devil of Hellsbottom
Title: The New Devil of Hellsbottom
Character: Peetrus
Released: June 15, 1964
Type: Movie
The way Saint Peter explains it to the Devil who's knocking on Heaven's door to collect his share of souls: there will be no more souls, as God has come to doubt if humans are really meant to achieve salvation. If they aren't then how can they be punished posthumous and sent to Hell? There's only one way to make sure if sinning is the human nature, or is it that they simply don't want to better themselves - Devil himself must go down to Earth, in human form, and if he can achieve salvation then so can a human being... Based on A. H. Tammsaare's classic novel of the same name.
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Traces
Title: Traces
Character: Elmar
Released: January 13, 1964
Type: Movie
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Under the Same Roof
Title: Under the Same Roof
Released: January 26, 1963
Type: Movie
Mari has successfully led a collective farm in 1950s and fulfilled all tasks given from the authorities. Nonetheless, things in the collective farm become progressively worse. The Committee of the Communist Party sends its representative Peeter who learns that Mari acts as a tyrant for the local people. She has to resign during the elections of the new manager. Being without authority has a damaging effect on her so she starts to regain her position with the help of her old stalinist tricks.
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Actor Joller
Title: Actor Joller
Character: Ruts
Released: August 28, 1960
Type: Movie
Toomas Joller has been an actor for twenty years. Joller is popular and has been awarded the honorary title of People's Artist. But Joller's star is gradually fading. He becomes egoistic and self-centered, his performances remain superficial. An actor's internal combustion requires hot water, which Joller uses in abundance together with his friend, the comedy actor Ruts.
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Uninvited Guests
Title: Uninvited Guests
Released: May 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Four Estonians who have escaped to Sweden during the war return to Soviet Estonia in the 1950s. The four saboteurs work for the Western Secret Service. Difficulties arise when they cross the border with an injured companion - the three have to decide what to do next.