Toomas Tahvel
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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.
Date of Birth
Jan 2, 1941
Place of Birth
Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Date of Death
Jun 8, 1997
Gender
Male
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Directing
19791h 6 min
19781h 25 min
19731h 8 min
19711h 31 min
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