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Aino Talvi (6 February 1909 – 12 March 1992) was an Estonian stage, film, and radio actress and singer whose career spanned over sixty years.


Early life

Aino Talvi was born Aino Müller in
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to police constable August Müller and Miili Müller (''née'' Lauson). She attended school at the Society of Education of Estonian Youth, Tartu Girls' Grammar School (now the
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) before the family moved to Mustvee in 1921. In 1922, Talvi's mother Miili died of pneumonia and the remaining family members moved back to Tartu, where she completed secondary school in 1927. Her father August would later remarry and change his surname to the more
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sounding Müür.


Stage career

Aino Talvi (then still using the surname Müller) made her stage debut at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu as a singer in the opera choir in 1929. Shortly afterwards, she began using the stage name Aino Talvi. She would remain a singer and actress at the Vanemuine until 1935 when she joined the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn. Talvi would remain at the Estonian Drama Theatre until 1944 when she left to join the Estonia Theatre for five years before returning in 1949. Following her return, she would remain an actress with the Estonian Drama Theatre until 1984. Afterwards, she would become a freelance actress. Talvi's career as a stage actress spanned over sixty years and she appeared in numerous theatre productions. Some of her most memorable roles include: *Ello and Liis,
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's '' Toomas Nipernaadi'' (1936) *Angelique, Molière's ''
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'' (1936) *Mari, August Kitzberg's ''
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'' (1941) *Nora,
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's '' A Doll's House'' (1943) *Roxanne,
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's '' Cyrano de Bergerac'' (1947) *Olga,
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's '' Three Sisters'' (1947) * Desdemona, William Shakespeare's ''
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'' (1949) *Helena (Jelena), Anton Chekhov's '' Uncle Vanya'' (1951) *Mari,
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's ''
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'' (1951, 1955 and 1958) *
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, William Shakespeare's ''
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'' (1955) *Commissar, Vsevolod Vishnevsky's '' An Optimistic Tragedy'' (1957) *Mother Courage,
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's '' Mother Courage and Her Children'' (1962) *The Widow,
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's, ''Polkovniku lesk ehk Arstid ei tea midagi'' (1966) *Bernarda Alba, Federico García Lorca's '' The House of Bernarda Alba'' (1966) *Mary Cavan Tyrone, Eugene O'Neill's '' Long Day's Journey into Night'' (1971)


Film and radio career

Aino Talvi made her screen debut in the role of Eeva Miilas in the 1947
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directed Soviet-Estonian language drama film ''Elu tsitadellis'' (English: ''Life in a Citadel'') for
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. ''Elu tsitadellis'' was the first post-World War II Estonian feature film following the annexation of Estonia into the Soviet Union. Based on the 1946 play of the same name by Estonian author and communist politician
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, the plot largely revolves around the arrival of the Soviet Army following the German occupation of Estonia in 1944 and justice being meted out to Estonians who had collaborated with German occupying forces. The film ends with jubilant Estonians celebrating their "liberation" and inclusion into the Soviet Union and accepting communist ideology. In 1956, Talvi appeared as Säinas in the Viktor Nevežin directed comedy-drama film ''Tagahoovis'' for Tallinna Kinostuudio. The film was an adaptation of the 1933
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' 1933 story of the same name. In 1959, Talvi had a small role as Hilda's mother in the Igor Yeltsov directed crime-drama ''Kutsumata külalised'', also for Tallinna Kinostuudio. In 1969, she dubbed the voice for Latvian actress Elza Radziņa's character in the Grigori Kromanov directed Estonian language historical drama film ''
Viimne reliikvia ''Viimne reliikvia'' ( Estonian for ''The Last Relic''; russian: Последняя реликвия, translit=Poslyednyaya ryelikvya) is a 1969 Estonian-language Soviet film based on '' Vürst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimsed päevad'' ( Esto ...
''. In 1983, she appeared in another small role in the Valentin Kuik directed Tallinnfilm biopic ''Georg'', chronicling the life of Estonian strongman and wrestler Georg Lurich. Aino Talvi also performed in a number of radio plays. Arguably the most memorable include Anton Chekhov's '' The Cherry Orchard'' in 1948, and Henrik Ibsen's '' The Wild Duck'' in 1959.


Personal life

Aino Talvi married Richard Oja in 1928. The marriage lasted ten years and the couple divorced in 1938. In 1940, she married Rein Pindam (1917–1993) and the couple had a son, Rein Pindam Jr. (1942–1999). Talvi and Pindam remained married until her death in 1992 at age 83. Talvi was buried in Tallinn's Metsakalmistu cemetery.


Acknowledgements

*State Prize of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (1950) *Merited Artist of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (1952) *People's Artist of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (1956) * Order of Lenin (1956) *
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''Rahvakunstnikud: Aino Talvi'' 1979. Retrieved 29 January 2017.


References


External links

* * Images of Aino Talvi a
Eesti Teatri- ja Muusikamuuseum
* Portrait paintings of Aino Talvi a
Teatri- ja Muusikamuuseum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Talvi, Aino 1909 births 1992 deaths Actresses from Tartu People from Kreis Dorpat Estonian stage actresses Estonian film actresses 20th-century Estonian actresses Miina Härma Gymnasium alumni People's Artists of the USSR People's Artists of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Burials at Metsakalmistu Soviet actresses