Elmo Nüganen
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 15, 1962
- Place of birth
- Jõhvi, Kohtla-Järve District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]
Biography
Elmo Nüganen (born February 15, 1962 in Jõhvi) is an Estonian theatre director, film director, and actor.
He has been the artistic director of the Tallinn City Theatre since 1992. He was a graduate of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in 1988 and then a professor at the academy in 1998–2002 and 2008–2012. He directed the war films Names in Marble from 2002 and 1944 from 2015. Names in Marble was seen by more than 168,000 people in Estonia and was selected for the 2003 Taormina Film Fest, while 1944 had the highest opening-week audience numbers in Estonian film history and became the country's submission for the Academy Awards.
Nüganen has received multiple awards for his work in theatre, including the Estonian Annual Theatre Award for Best Director in 1992, 1995, 2000, 2007, and 2010, and the Estonian National Cultural Award in 1996, 1999, and 2009.
Movies with Elmo Nüganen
- Tangerines 2013 · ★ 7.7
- Purge 2012 · ★ 6.9
- Names in Marble 2002 · ★ 5.9
- Dawn of War 2020 · ★ 6.1
- Mushrooming 2012 · ★ 5.8
- Marraskuun harmaa valo 1993 · ★ 6.2
- For Crazies Only 1991 · ★ 4.8
- Love for Three Oranges 1994 · ★ 7.9
- Prompter 1993 · ★ 4.2
- Portugal 2018 · ★ 5.7
- August välja 2014 · ★ 6.5
- Demons 2012 · ★ 8.0
- Sunday Only 1990 · ★ 9.0
- One-Dimensional Man 2025 · ★ 4.0
- Conversation 2022
- Father, Son and Holy Theatre 2010
- Rebel with a Bow Tie 2025
- Serafima 2027
Movies directed by Elmo Nüganen
- 1944 2015 · ★ 6.8
- Names in Marble 2002 · ★ 5.9
- Melchior the Apothecary 2022 · ★ 6.9
- Melchior the Apothecary: The Ghost 2022 · ★ 6.7
- Melchior the Apothecary: The Executioner's Daughter 2023 · ★ 6.4
- Mindless 2006 · ★ 4.9
- Love for Three Oranges 1994 · ★ 7.9
- Burattino 2002