Veljo Käsper (13 May 1930

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

– 16 March 1982 Tallinn) was an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

n film director and scenarist. In 1964 he graduated from

Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography (, meaning ''All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography named after S. A. Gerasimov''), a.k.a. VGIK, is a film school in Moscow, ...

. Since 1960 he worked at

Tallinnfilm Tallinnfilm () is the oldest surviving film studio in Estonia. It was founded as Estonian Culture Film in 1931, and was nationalized in 1940 after Estonia was integrated into the Soviet Union. During the first year of Soviet occcupation (1940 ...

. As a film director, he often dared to experiment with points of view that were not always in line with the will of the communist party ideology that was ruling at the time.

Filmography

* 1974 " Dangerous Games" (feature film; director) * 1977 " A Time to Live and a Time to Love" (feature film; director) * 1979 "Strateegia ja reservid" (documental film; director and scenarist) * 1980 "Kutsumus" (documental film; director and scenarist) * 1981 "Pihlakaväravad" (feature film; director and scenarist)

References

1930 births 1982 deaths Estonian film directors Estonian screenwriters Film people from Tallinn Burials at Rahumäe Cemetery 20th-century screenwriters {{Estonia-stub