Kaljo Kiisk

Kaljo Kiisk

Kaljo Kiisk (December 3, 1925 – September 20, 2007) was an Estonian actor, film director and politician. He was best known for his roles as Kristjan Lible from Spring, Summer and Autumn, film adaptations of Oskar Luts' novels, and as Johannes Saarepera from ETV's long-running Õnne 13. His career spanned over half a century from 1953 to 2007.

  • Title: Kaljo Kiisk
  • Popularity: 5.352
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1925-12-03
  • Place of Birth:
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  • Also Known As: Кальё Кийск, K. Kiisa, K. Kiisk, Kalju Kiisk, Kalje Kiysk
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Kaljo Kiisk Movies

  • 1994
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    American Mountains

    American Mountains

    1 1994 HD

    A former goldminer who has run afoul of the law is made an unusual offer by the mafia. The power of money and popularity among women won't let him...

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  • 1995
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    Too Tired to Hate

    Too Tired to Hate

    7.5 1995 HD

    This modern western depicting juvenile crime takes as its theme the struggle of an individual against a vicious circle of violence. The spiral of...

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  • 1993
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    Marraskuun harmaa valo

    Marraskuun harmaa valo

    5.7 1993 HD

    Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a...

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  • 1970
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    Spring

    Spring

    6.8 1970 HD

    Paunvere parish school students Arno and Teele, Toots and Kiir, Tõnisson and Imelik experience feelings during one school winter, the traces...

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  • 1996
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    Rothschild's Violin

    Rothschild's Violin

    7 1996 HD

    1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during...

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  • 1976
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    Summer

    Summer

    6.231 1976 HD

    In the beginning of the 20th century, Joosep Toots has returned from Russia, where he learned agriculture. He wants to start reforming his father's...

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  • 1990
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    Autumn

    Autumn

    5.778 1990 HD

    The main character of the film is Paunvere tailor Jorh Adniel Kiir. Two young seamstresses, Juuli and Maali, arrive in Paunvere. At first, Kiir...

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  • 1981
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    Igihaljas vaatemäng

    Igihaljas vaatemäng

    8.5 1981 HD

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  • 1982
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    Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter

    Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter

    6.8 1982 HD

    Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also dreams about a life of a usual girl. One day a...

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  • 2006
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    Visit of an Old Lady

    Visit of an Old Lady

    1 2006 HD

    As a young woman, Claire left her hometown in disgrace. Now she is old and unimaginably rich, as for the first time she returns. The town is nearly...

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  • 1977
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    Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

    Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

    5.8 1977 HD

    The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communists, failed and resulted in many lost lives on...

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  • 1973
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    Landing

    Landing

    1 1973 HD

    Reet loves her long-distance coxswain husband Reinu, but the long separations have tortured her. It seems to her that the man cares more about his...

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  • 1961
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    Dangerous Curves

    Dangerous Curves

    1 1961 HD

    A romantic comedy about two rival motorcyclists who are in love with two twin sisters. It is a remake of the 1959 film Naughty Curves and was the...

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  • 1975
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    The Red Violin

    The Red Violin

    1 1975 HD

    When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the world revolution is about to begin. His...

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  • 1977
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    My Wife Became a Grandmother

    My Wife Became a Grandmother

    1 1977 HD

    A middle-aged literature teacher who devotes his free time to poetry is used to being the center of admiration for his family, especially his wife....

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  • 1988
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    Vernanda

    Vernanda

    5.8 1988 HD

    Roman Baskin's debut as a film director is an allegorical story of a man (Sulev Luik) who happens to step out of a train in a small town named...

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  • 1970
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    Old Thomas Is Stolen

    Old Thomas Is Stolen

    4 1970 HD

    Old Faithful City mascot Thomas, who for centuries have stood the Town Hall tower at the top, is gone. He has left his guard post to go to defend...

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  • 1976
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    Indrek

    Indrek

    1 1976 HD

    Based on the second part of the pentalogy "Truth and Justice" by Anton H. Tammsaare.

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  • 1989
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    Doctor Stockmann

    Doctor Stockmann

    2 1989 HD

    Toomas Stockmann, the head doctor of a water clinic built in a small town by the sea, discovers that the facility is threatened by an infection...

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  • 2006
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    The Hostage

    The Hostage

    6 2006 HD

    The Hijacker lands the plane at the Rīga Airport. 7 year-old Tom, travelling on his own, voluntarily becomes a hostage. Along with the traditional...

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  • 1990
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    Awakening

    Awakening

    4.5 1990 HD

    It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian...

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  • 1991
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    Peace Street

    Peace Street

    1 1991 HD

    On Christmas Eve, the residents of Peace Street discover that there are military guards in front of their houses. Soon they have to start showing...

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  • 1991
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    Old Man Wants to Go Home

    Old Man Wants to Go Home

    1 1991 HD

    Toomas Simmo is a simple worker who has seen a lot of injustice and carelessness in his life. Yet he has not become bitter or lost the ability to...

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  • 1967
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    What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?

    What Happened To Andres Lapeteus?

    3 1967 HD

    After a long night with his old war buddies, Andres Lapeteus regains consciousness in the hospital. How has confusion, bewilderment and alienation...

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  • 1994
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    Jüri Rumm

    Jüri Rumm

    6 1994 HD

    Jüri Rumm is a hot-tempered young peasant who is not afraid of either German barons or the Russian czar, barfights or disobedience to his...

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  • 1955
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    Yachts at Sea

    Yachts at Sea

    1 1955 HD

    After the war, young yachtsmen from the coastal town deal with daily work, training and competitions without knowing about the downside. Suddenly,...

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  • 2001
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    Ladybirds' Christmas

    Ladybirds' Christmas

    6 2001 HD

    Two young ladybirds Tim and Mia are unexpectedly taken into a human family’s house together with a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve. Tim and Mia...

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  • 1976
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    Death Under Sail

    Death Under Sail

    6.6 1976 HD

    Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht...

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  • 1962
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    Men from the Fisherman's Village

    Men from the Fisherman's Village

    1 1962 HD

    After a stormy night on the sea, a group of Estonian fishermen end up in a small coastal Finnish town. As they await the Soviet authorities to take...

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  • 1987
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    In One Hundred Years in May

    In One Hundred Years in May

    1 1987 HD

    Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. He corresponds with Moscow, writes speeches for...

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  • 1996
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    Grisha

    Grisha

    7 1996 HD

    An up-close look into the life of the often misunderstood movie director Grigori Kromanov through the lens of old friends and colleagues.

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  • 1969
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    Madness

    Madness

    5.9 1969 HD

    The action takes place in a nameless country occupied by the German army at the time of World War II. In a small village there's an asylum. A squad...

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  • 1988
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    Dance Around the Steam Boiler

    Dance Around the Steam Boiler

    6 1988 HD

    The movie travels through the 20th century by monitoring a steam boiler. We see the history of Estonia through life, agricultural work and people at...

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  • 1970
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    Spring

    Spring

    6.8 1970 HD

    Paunvere parish school students Arno and Teele, Toots and Kiir, Tõnisson and Imelik experience feelings during one school winter, the traces...

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  • 1983
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    The Adventurer

    The Adventurer

    4.8 1983 HD

    Toomas Nipernaadi is seen roaming the rural landscape, going from village to village looking for the woman of his dreams. He wears a bedraggled white...

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  • 1967
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    The Midday Ferry

    The Midday Ferry

    4.2 1967 HD

    The events take place in Estonia in a summer in the 1960s. The Boy and the Girl want to go from mainland Estonia to the island of Saaremaa, but they...

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  • 1969
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    Madness

    Madness

    5.9 1969 HD

    The action takes place in a nameless country occupied by the German army at the time of World War II. In a small village there's an asylum. A squad...

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  • 1965
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    We Were Eighteen

    We Were Eighteen

    6 1965 HD

    It's 1940 - the first summer of the Soviet occupation on the Estonian island Saaremaa. Teenagers stepping in their lives have important decisions to...

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  • 1961
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    Dangerous Curves

    Dangerous Curves

    1 1961 HD

    A romantic comedy about two rival motorcyclists who are in love with two twin sisters. It is a remake of the 1959 film Naughty Curves and was the...

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  • 1990
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    Regina

    Regina

    1 1990 HD

    Regina is a beautiful, educated and independent woman whose boyfriend tells her that he is going to marry a young girl expecting a baby. As Regina...

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  • 1980
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    Wild Violets

    Wild Violets

    6 1980 HD

    It is the year 1947. The war is over but Estonian forests are still hiding armoured men. When the message comes that Western spies will arrive to...

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  • 1975
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    The Red Violin

    The Red Violin

    1 1975 HD

    When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the world revolution is about to begin. His...

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  • 1973
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    Landing

    Landing

    1 1973 HD

    Reet loves her long-distance coxswain husband Reinu, but the long separations have tortured her. It seems to her that the man cares more about his...

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  • 1971
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    Windy Beach

    Windy Beach

    1 1971 HD

    The coastal people of Kaugatoma set out to build their own ship to earn a living independent of the baron's will. The baron does everything to...

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  • 1977
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    Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

    Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

    5.8 1977 HD

    The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communists, failed and resulted in many lost lives on...

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  • 1963
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    Ice Run

    Ice Run

    6 1963 HD

    Two proud fisherman families live on a very small island in Estonia. The two fishermen have always bore a grudge against each other. Their...

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  • 1964
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    Traces

    Traces

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1959
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    Naughty Curves

    Naughty Curves

    5.2 1959 HD

    If Vaike, a student and athlete from Tartu, arrives to Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa speedway, the bikes are already racing with dizzying speeds. The...

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  • 1973
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    Landing

    Landing

    1 1973 HD

    Reet loves her long-distance coxswain husband Reinu, but the long separations have tortured her. It seems to her that the man cares more about his...

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  • 1955
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    Yachts at Sea

    Yachts at Sea

    1 1955 HD

    After the war, young yachtsmen from the coastal town deal with daily work, training and competitions without knowing about the downside. Suddenly,...

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  • 1993
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    Prompter

    Prompter

    3.5 1993 HD

    The last film directed by Kaljo Kiisk has been dedicated to theatre and the people in theatre. You are entering the hectic world of musicians, zanies...

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  • 1975
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    The Red Violin

    The Red Violin

    1 1975 HD

    When Estonian violinist Eduard Sõrmus starts his concert tours in Europe, he is convinced that the world revolution is about to begin. His...

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  • 1987
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    In One Hundred Years in May

    In One Hundred Years in May

    1 1987 HD

    Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. He corresponds with Moscow, writes speeches for...

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  • 1958
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    Days of June

    Days of June

    6.5 1958 HD

    Peeter Saarmann has grown up in the Raidma family with the knowledge that his father was a casualty of war and mother died during evacuation. He is a...

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  • 1993
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    Õnne 13

    Õnne 13

    4.5 1993 HD

    Õnne 13 is an Estonian dramatic TV series that airs on ETV. The series first aired on 30 October 1993 and was written by Astrid Reinla and as...

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  • 1995
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    Wikman's Boys

    Wikman's Boys

    7 1995 HD

    Wikman's Boys is a 1994-year drama serial about the Wikman Private Gymnasium students from 1937 till their mobilization in 1944. The series is based...

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  • 1977
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    Смерть под парусом

    Смерть под парусом

    7.3 1977 HD

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