Career
In 1970 the movie sold 558,000 tickets in Estonia (Total population 134 million) and in 1971 8,100,000 tickets in Soviet Union. Arvo Kruusement attended Russian University of Theatre Arts in Moscow, Russia from where he graduated in 1953. in 1953-1961 he worked as an actor at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn. In 1962-1964 Arvo Kruusement was the director of the Endla Theatre in Pärnu Estonia, and film director in Tallinnfilm in 1965-1991.