Peeter Simm
- Directing
- February 24, 1953 · Kiviõli, Kiviõli District, Tallinn Oblast, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]
- March 12, 2026
Biography
Peeter Simm (born February 24, 1953; Kiviõli – March 12, 2026) was an Estonian film director. Peeter Simm studied at Nõo Secondary School in a physics class and graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (cum laude) in 1976 with a degree in feature film directing. From 1975 to 1993, Simm worked at Tallinnfilm, first as an assistant director, then as a feature film director. In 1993, he founded the studio Lege Artis Film. As a director, he collaborated with many studios. He also directed in the theater, made language training and advertising films, television programs, etc. He worked as a visiting professor of film directing at the Baltic Institute of Film, Media, Arts and Communication.
Known for
Filmography
- Wishes from the Well · Shop Guest
- On the Water · Director
- Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky · Self
- Lonely Island · Director, Writer
- Georg · Director
- Fed Up! · Director, Writer
- Elu pärast maailmalõppu · Director, Writer
- Good Hands · Director, Writer
- Like an Arrow · Director, Writer
- Standing by the Forest · Writer, Director
- American Mountains · Director, Writer
- Our Russians · Director, Screenplay
- A Man Who Never Was · Director
- The Baltic Way · Director
- Dance Around the Steam Boiler · Director
- In One Hundred Years in May · Member of the Court Martial #5
- Puud olid... · Director
- Täna õhtul... · Self, Director
- The Next Pick · Director, Writer
- Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter · Director, Screenplay
- The Song of the Summer
- The Ideal Landscape · Director
- Multicolored Fairies · Writer, Director
- Christmas in Vigala · Konstantin Päts
- The Blue Carbuncle
- Siren · Director, Writer
- Daisy Petal Game · Poacher #1 (segment "Poacher"), Director
- Stereo · Director, Writer
- Võsakurat · Director, Writer
- Summer · Assistant Director
- All Amongst Friends · Director, Screenplay