Jüri Järvet

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birthdate = June 18 1919
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deathdate = July 25 1995
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Jüri Järvet (June 18, 1919 – July 5, 1995) was an Estonian actor. His name sometimes appears as "Yuri [Yevgenyevich] Yarvet", an incorrect back-transliteration from the Russian "Юри [Евгеньевич] Ярвет"

He 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.

Jarvet played the title role in a powerful version of "King Lear" 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.

elected filmography

* "Korol Lir" (1971)
* "Solaris" (1972)
* "Ohtlikud mängud" (1974)
* "Aeg elada, aeg armastada" (1976)
* "'Hukkunud Alpinisti' hotell" (1979)
* "Khrustalyov, My Car!" (1998)

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