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Jüri Järvet
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!.
As actor
Legends of Tallinn
The Secret of Queen Anna or Musketeers 30 Years Later
Marraskuun harmaa valo
City Unplugged
Candles in the Dark
Tear of the Prince of Darkness
Время вашей жизни
Luukas
He Will Receive
Peace Avenue
Surmatants
Philipp Traum
The Watchmaker and the Chicken
Vernanda
Dance Around the Steam Boiler
Face to Face
In the Time of the Law of the Wolf
Lurich
Капитан Фракасс
Cargo With No Markings
Täna õhtul...
The Adventurer
A Fairy Tale Told at Night
Murder on the 31st Floor
Wild Violets
Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
The Visitor
Daisy Petal Game
Time to Live, Time to Love
Summer