The Spring directed by Arvo Kruusement

Arvo Kruusement

Arvo Kruusement is an Estonian actor, theatre and film director who has made some of Estonia's classic novels into films Spring and Fall The movie Spring has been noted as the best Estonian feature film in the Top Ten Poll hold by Estonian film critics and journalists in 2002...

  is a film adaptation

Film adaptation

Film adaptation is the transfer of a written work to a feature film. It is a type of derivative work.A common form of film adaptation is the use of a novel as the basis of a feature film, but film adaptation includes the use of non-fiction , autobiography, comic book, scripture, plays, and even...

 of Oskar Luts

Oskar Luts

-Biography:Oskar Luts was born into a middle-class family in central Estonia, at that time in the government of Livonia . He attended Änkküla village school in 1894. He went to Palamuse Parish parish school in Jõgeva County, attending from 1895–1899. From 1899–1902 he studied at the Tartu...

 popular novel bearing the same title. . The movie received the first place in the Estonian feature films

Cinema of Estonia

Cinema in Estonia started in 1896 when the first "moving pictures" were screened in Tallinn. The first movie theater was opened in 1908. First local documentary was made in 1908 with the production of a newsreel about Swedish King Gustav V’s visit to Tallinn...

 Top Ten Poll in 2002 held by Estonian film critics and journalists. In 1970 the movie sold 558,000 tickets in Estonia (Total population 1.34 million) and in 1971 8,100,000 in Soviet Union. The film was re-released in Estonia on 13 April 2006.

Cast

• Arno Liiver as Arno Tali
• Riina Hein as Raja Teele
• Aare Laanemets as Joosep Toots
• Margus Lepa
  Margus Lepa
  Margus Lepa is an Estonian actor.-Early life and education:He was born in Pelgulinn, a subdistrict of Tallinn, Estonia.-Film acting:...
  
   as Georg Adniel Kiir
• Ain Lutsepp as Tõnisson
• Leonhard Merzin as Teacher Laur
• Endel Ani as Parish clerk aka Julk-Jüri
• Kaljo Kiisk as Kristjan Lible
• Rein Aedma as Jaan Imelik
• Kalle Eomois as Kuslap
• Ervin Abel as Papa Kiir