Director

Arvo Iho

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Directed movies: 21Directed series: 0All crew credits: 27

TMDB ID: 1086268

IMDb ID: nm0407313

Known for: Directing

Born: June 21, 1949

Age: 76

Place of birth: Rakvere, Lääne-Viru County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1972 - 2020

Years active: 49

Average TMDB rating: 6.75

Wikidata: Q12359782

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Director of Photography (14)Director (6)Assistant Director (1)Camera Operator (2)Assistant Camera (1)Cinematography (1)Producer (1)Writer (1)

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Biography

Arvo Iho (born June 21, 1949) is an Estonian film director, cinematographer, actor and photographer, who has worked in the areas of documentary and drama. Born in Rakvere, Iho worked as a photographer and assistant for Tallinnfilm before studying cinematography at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography. Iho acted as assistant director to Andrei Tarkovsky on the 1979 film Stalker. He went on to work as a cameraman for Tallinnfilm in the 1980s. In 1985, Iho co-directed the feature film Games for School–Age Children with Leida Laius, also acting as director of cinematography, and in 1987 made his solo directorial debut with The Birdwatcher, about the relationship between a poacher and an ornithologist. He followed this with Only for the Insane (1990). In 2001 he made The Heart of the Bear, based on the Nikolai Baturin novel, and in 2006 made Gooseberries. As a photographer, Iho has exhibited nationally and internationally. As of 2017, Iho was a professor at Tallinn University's Baltic Film and Media School.