Aarne Ahi (born 11 September 1943,

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast o ...

) is an

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n animator and animated film director. Since 1967 he worked at

Tallinnfilm Tallinnfilm is the oldest surviving film studio in Estonia. It was founded as Estonian Culture Film in 1931, and was nationalized in 1940 after Estonia was forced into the Soviet Union. During the first year of Soviet Occupation (1940–1941) ' ...

's department of puppetry ( et, Tallinnfilmi nukufilmi osakond), later he worked at

Nukufilm Nukufilm OÜ is an animation studio in Tallinn, Estonia. This studio is the biggest stop-motion animation studio in Northern Europe. The studio was established in 1957. In 1993, the studio was disjointed from Tallinnfilm. Since 1993, the studi ...

Selected filmography

Filmography per IMDB: * 1975 "Lapsehoidjad" * 1978 "Linalakk ja Rosalin" * 1980 "Karsumm" * 1985 "Vägev vähk ja ahne naine" * 1987 "Magus planeet" * 1988 "Linnupüüdja" * 1991 "Kingikratt" * 1991 "The House Spirit"

References

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