Arvo Iho
Born 1949 (age 76) · Rakvere, Viru County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Lääne-Viru County, Estonia]
Appears in 31 titles

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.

Filmography

Visions of Europe
5.2
Visions of Europe
2004
Director
The Heart of the Bear
3.2
The Heart of the Bear
2001
Director
For Crazies Only
4.8
For Crazies Only
1991
Director
The Bird Watcher
5.0
The Bird Watcher
1988
Director
The Gardener
The Gardener
2007
Director
Milarepa laulud
Milarepa laulud
1989
Director