Reet Paavel
Acting
Biography
Reet Paavel (born July 18, 1953 in Tartu) is an Estonian dancer and actress. She has worked in theaters Vanemuine and Estonia, Anatoli Vassiljev's private theater Drama Art School, variety shows Kaunas (Tartu) and Viru (Tallinn), ballet school Fouette, Vanalinna College of Education, Kanutiaia Noortemaja as a theater instructor, Kaari Sillamaa School of Fine Arts as a pedagogue-director, Tammsaare theater as a director. Since 1994, she has been supervising the Reet Paavel Dance and Acting Studio. She is the daughter of the Estonian actor Voldemar Paavel and the sister of Maie Kalaus, the violinist of the Estonian Theater Orchestra, and Anu Paavel, the former singer of Vanemuise. She has been married twice. The first marriage was with a Russian ballet dancer. Her second marriage was with ERSO horn player Valdek Põllu, with whom Reet had a daughter with, Elizabeth Paavel. Her current life partner is film director Peeter Simm.
Known For
Andres is a sensitive teenager raised by his strict grandparents in a small bland Soviet Estonian town. He is being bullied at school and his only friends are the drunkards, whores, and thieves living next door.
On the Water
Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also dreams about a life of a usual girl. One day a weird stranger is saved from the sea who will be the only friend of Arabella. At the same time a rival pirate called Raudpats plans to kidnap the girl. Will she be safe and can she ever live a normal life?
Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter
In post-World War II Estonia, Mait Kukemeri, an activist of the Young Communist League arrives to the Metsa collective farm in the back of a traveling cinema truck. As a commissary of the spring sowing, he has orders to usher all the people to the field, even if the water is high enough to soak your boots and the machines sink in the mud. Harald Tuvikene, the head of the farm, keeps dragging his feet, trying to pitch his peasant wisdom against the senseless demands of the central power. For the first time in his life, Kukemeri faces a real problem - does he do what's right or does he follow the party's inept commands in order to further his own career?
The Ideal Landscape
Police officer Jensen orders the evacuation of a leading media group's office building after a bomb threat is made. There won't be any explosion, however, the media group sustains big losses because of the work stoppage and the management requires investigation of the case. Officer Jensen identifies six suspects, then finds out that he is being followed himself, especially when he gets involved in the obscure activities of the mysterious 31st department.
Murder on the 31st Floor
16-year-old Mari, raised without a mother by a drunkard father, is put in an orphanage which she immediately, though unsuccessfully, tries to flee from. The sensitive Mari finds it hard to adapt to the coarse manners and brutal games amongst the children. Only gradually does she develop a sense for the similarly difficult fates of her fellow sufferers, who have long forgotten how to cry. She even falls in love for the first time, not with her self-appointed “protector” Tauri, but with the rough-mannered Robi.
Smile at Last
A young veterinarian arrives from the city for his first job at a sovkhoz. The cheerful hippie-like young man clashes with the locals who take him as a stranger. The film is a combination of somber naturalism, lyricism, a dash of naive sentimentality and a deep sense of sovkhoz life in the early 1970s. Based on Riho Mesilane's short story "The Veterinarian's First Week". As Mesilane fled to Vienna at the end of the filming, the film was banned and released 13 years after its completion in autumn 1991.