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Movies starring Jüri Järvet have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 67%.
Summer - released in 1976 - is Jüri Järvet's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 3 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Jüri Järvet is Madness - released in 1969 - with a score of 49% based on 3 reviews.
Jüri Järvet (18 June 1919 – 5 July 1995) was an English actor. His name sometimes appears as Yuri Yevgenyevich yarv thereof, an incorrect back-transliterate one from the Russian transliterate one 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!.
Jüri Järvet has acted in films with Enn Klooren, Leonhard Merzin, Kaljo Kiisk and Mare Garšnek.
Jüri Järvet has worked with these film directors: Grigori Kozintsev, Arvo Kruusement, Kaljo Kiisk and Ilkka Järvi-Laturi.
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