Martti Soosaar is an Estonia

Estonia

Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...

n journalist and writer.

The son of photographer Hans Soosaar, Soosaar graduated from Tartu University in journalism. He worked as a newspaper editor for Noorte Hääl. He featured in the Estonian Radio television sitcom "Õhtujutud" (Evening Stories) which consisted of interviews with the artists. Martti Soosaar has also written for Kymen Sanomat

Kymen Sanomat

Kymen Sanomat is a Finnish newspaper published in the Kymenlaakso region of Finland. It has its headquarters in Kotka. It is published seven times weekly and has a circulation of 24,216 papers with approximately 62,000 readers as of 2007. The newspaper was established in 1902....

, a major Finnish broadsheet newspaper.

Soosaar has also been involved with film and theatre and in 1997 released Lea Valter and then in 1998/1999 he filmed and starred in the documentary Enn Põldroosi härrasmeeste seltskond in which he worked with noted animation film director Rein Raamat

Rein Raamat

Rein Raamat is an Estonian animation film director, artist and screenwriter. He is the first internationally successful Estonian animator and along with Elbert Tuganov is regarded as the "Father of Estonian Animation"...

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Selected works

• Raamatud "August Vomm" (1977)
• "Kunstnik ja modell" (1978)
• "Ateljee-etüüde" (interviews with artists 1983)
• "Ateljee-etüüde. 2 (interviews with artists; 1990)
• "Eesti ex libris" (Helsinki)
• "Tuntud ja tundmatu Gori" (2003)
• "Lase vareseid!"
• Stsenaariumid "Lea Valter" (1997) (film)
• "Enn Põldroosi härrasmeeste seltskond" (1998) (film)