Tarmo Urb
Acting
Biography
Tarmo Urb (born September 9, 1952 in Tartu) is an Estonian songwriter, singer, actor and healer. He studied at Tartu 8th Secondary School and sang in the Tartu Boy's Choir. He continued his studies in 1970 at the Tartu State University majoring in English philology and in 1976 at the Tallinn State Conservatory of Performing Arts. He spent five years in various places of detention and in a psychoneurological hospital until 1987 for several attempts to cross the border and "setting a bad example for Soviet youth". For example, he tried to leave the Soviet Union by walking through the Finnish Karelia ANSV. Left Sweden in 1988, he has lived in the United States (Los Angeles and New York) since 1989. For decades, brothers Tarmo and Toomas Urb have been performing lyrical chamber songs both in Estonia and America. His brother is the singer and actor Toomas Urb. Tarmo Urb's son Johann Urb is an actor.
Known For
Pete and Pete are two redheaded brothers living in the somewhat surreal town of Wellsville. Pete, the older of the two, narrates the stories about their adventures in everyday life.
The Adventures of Pete & Pete
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Basquiat
Odessa is a beautiful girl addicted to the attention and money that being an adult film star brings. William, a lonely mechanic, has a crush on her, and she indulges his fantasy and leads him on. Thinking he can save her and help her find a normal life, he befriends her drug-fueled bodyguard, Angry Jack, to get close to her.
Beautiful Girl
Georg Lurich was a world-famous Estonian professional wrestler in the early 1900-s who became a legend already in his lifetime. He was called not only the world's best technique-wrestler but he was also a sports-philosopher, health and temperance activist, an efficient sports manager, a talent in acting, writing and chess, a "world's citizen" who spoke more than ten languages and an athlete with enormous popularity. At least 14 wrestling clubs in Europe and USA carried his name. This film is an unpretentious attempt to recall that unique man, the first world-famous Estonian.
Lurich
Brothers Tarmo and Toomas Urb are musicians whose phenomenon in 1980s Estonia is hard to overestimate. Performing romantic ballads accompanied by guitar, they were able to bring a full house to any concert hall. Some songs like "Imeline laas" or "Musta pori näkku" have become folklore. The brothers were compared to the duo Simon & Garfunkel.