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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

7

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-01-02

Day of Death

1997-06-08 (56 years old)

Place of Birth

Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Also Known As

Toomas Tahvel

Biography

Toomas Tahvel (January 2, 1941 – June 8, 1997) was an Estonian film director. He mostly worked on documentaries, but tried a hand on a few fiction film projects also. For example, he gained notoriety for the short fiction film “Poacher”, which was one of the films from cassette “Daisy Petal Game” (1977). Tahvel has worked under Tallinnfilm, where he mainly focused on directing feature films. Later on he moved to the next chapter and started to play with the documentary genre. Under Tallinnfilm he released “On the shore of the Sea of Japan” (1980) and under Estonian Telefilm he did the rest of his documentaries. Most attention attracted the film “Sajandiring” (1985), which talked about Estonians emigration to the Caucasus.

Known For

Acting

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Directing