Regia

Toomas Tahvel

Professione: Regia
Nascita: 2 gennaio 1941 · Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Morte: 8 giugno 1997

Biografia

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.