Jüri Järvet

Known for ActingBorn 1919-06-18Died 1995-07-05Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia

Jüri Järvet (June 18, 1919 – July 5, 1995) was an Estonian actor. His name sometimes appears as Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet, an incorrect back-transliteration from the Russian transliteration Юри Евгеньевич Ярвет. His birthname was Georgi Kuznetsov, and he took the Estonian form in 1938. Järvet is best known in the West for the role of Dr. Snaut in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, but he played in numerous other films both in Russian and his native Estonian. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1975, and the USSR State Prize in 1981. Järvet played the title role in a powerful version of King Lear (1971) filmed on bleak landscapes in his native Estonia by Russian director Grigori Kozintsev and released in 1970. Kozintsev shared the screenwriting credit with Boris Pasternak; the score was by Dmitri Shostakovich. His son Jüri Järvet Jr. has also acted in several movies, including All My Lenins and Khrustalyov, My Car!.Read more

Movies & web series

Время вашей жизни

Peace Avenue

Time to Live, Time to Love

The Red Violin

He Will Receive

Windy Beach

Girl in Black

Face to Face

Murder on the 31st Floor

Under the Same Roof

Laulu sõber

Meeting by Chance

Legends of Tallinn

Luukas

In the Time of the Law of the Wolf

Wild Violets

An Unusual Story

Traces

Solaris

Dangerous Games

The Committee of 19

The Visitor

Lurich

Surmatants

The Watchmaker and the Chicken

Data Tutashkhia

Lack of Wind

Dance Around the Steam Boiler

Uninvited Guests

King Lear

The Accident

City Unplugged

The Last Relic

Marraskuun harmaa valo

Summer

Dead Mountaineer's Hotel

Candles in the Dark

Madness

Vernanda

The Milkman of Mäeküla

Daisy Petal Game

Philipp Traum

Andrus' Happiness

A Fairy Tale Told at Night

The Dead Season

Spring in the Forest

Postmark from Vienna

The New Devil of Hellsbottom