Elmar Salulaht

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

0.1243

Gender

Male

Birthday

17-Apr-1910

Age

(116 years old)

Place of Birth

Dorpat, Dorpat County, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire [now Tartu, Tartu County, Estonia]

Also Known As
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Elmar Salulaht

Biography

Elmar Salulaht (until 1937 Elmar Soop; April 17, 1910 Tartu – October 7, 1974 Tartu) was an Estonian actor and opera singer (bass). From 1923 to 1936 he worked as a metalworker. He studied singing with Georg Stahlberg. From 1936 to 1939 he was a singer and actor at the Vanemuine theatre in Tartu and from 1939 to 1940 at the Narva Theatre. From 1942 to 1943 he was an actor at the Estonian Theatre and from 1943 to 1974, he returned to the at the Vanemuine. Besides stage roles he also appeared as an actor on films: he played the lead role the feature film Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan (1964). Salulaht is buried in Rahumäe cemetery.


Credits

Väike reekviem suupillile Väike reekviem suupillile (1972) Character: N/A
Students Jaan and Heiki in 1972, inexplicably, cross the river of time and arrive in 1944, the year of the German occupation of Estonia. The film depicts the painful and conflicting contact between the two ages and mentality.
Keskpäevane praam Keskpäevane praam (1967) Character: Man in the Bus
The events take place in Estonia in a summer in the 1960s. The Boy and the Girl want to go from mainland Estonia to the island of Saaremaa, but they do not have any money to buy the ticket to the ferry. They manage to hide themselves into a lorry that carries hay. Because they are smoking while they are on the lorry, a fire breaks out. The problem is, that the ferry is in the middle of the sea.
Maaletulek Maaletulek (1973) Character: N/A
Reet loves her long-distance coxswain husband Rein, but the long separations have tortured her. It seems to her that the man cares more about his work than about her. Rein really loves his work, but his wife just as passionately. He does not understand how loneliness can overwhelm Reet, when women have always been waiting for men from far away. Their family friend Mart loves Reet and cannot see her suffer. It is in Marti's power to offer Reet a safe life, and the woman plagued by internal struggles makes a choice, but happiness seems to slip even further away.
Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan (1965) Character: Devil
The way Saint Peter explains it to the Devil who's knocking on Heaven's door to collect his share of souls: there will be no more souls, as God has come to doubt if humans are really meant to achieve salvation. If they aren't then how can they be punished posthumous and sent to Hell? There's only one way to make sure if sinning is the human nature, or is it that they simply don't want to better themselves - Devil himself must go down to Earth, in human form, and if he can achieve salvation then so can a human being... Based on A. H. Tammsaare's classic novel of the same name.
Tuulevaikus Tuulevaikus (1971) Character: Disabled Man
Taavi is worried about the lack of wind that won't let him do his daily job as a fisherman. But he is definitely not the guy who would just sit and wait for better days to arrive.
Kolme katku vahel Kolme katku vahel (1970) Character: One Eye
The story of Balthasar Russow, an Estonian pastor from the 16th century, his life and life's work - writing The Chronicle of Livonia.



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