Theodor Luts an Estonian film director

Film director

A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and cinematographer

Cinematographer

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, brother of an Estonian classic writer 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...

, was the first major figure of Estonian cinematography

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...

 

His Noored kotkad (Young Eagles) (1927) is generally regarded as the cornerstone of Estonian cinema. Päikese lapsed (Children of the Sun) (1932), directed by Luts, was the first Estonian full length

Feature film

In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...

 sound film

Sound film

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After the Great Depression

Great Depression

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 hit Estonia in 1930's Theodor Luts produced mostly documentaries for a state subsidized film studio Eesti Kultuurifilm and also had a successful career in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

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Twenty-four films by Theodor Luts made in Estonia have survived and are hold at the Estonian Film Archives.

Feature films directed by Luts in Finland include Salainen ase (1943) and Varjoja Kannaksella (1943).

After World War II

World War II

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 and the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Luts emigrated to Brazil

Brazil

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 where he directed Caraça, Porta do Céu

Brazilian films of the 1950s

An incomplete list of films produced in Brazil in the 1950s. For an alphabetical list of films currently on Wikipedia see :Category:Brazilian films-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

in 1950.

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