Heikki Koort (1 March 1955

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

– 21 May 2021) was an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

n diplomat, sport figure and actor. In 1969, aged fourteen, he was cast in the role of Peterson in the

Arvo Kruusement Arvo Kruusement (born 20 April 1928) is an Estonian actor, theatre and film director who has made some of Estonia's classic novels into films; '' Spring'' (1969), ''Summer'' (1976), and ''Fall'' (1990) The movie ''Spring'' has been noted as the b ...

directed

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film '' Kevade'' (English: ''Spring'') for

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 integrated into the Soviet Union. During the first year of Soviet occcupation (1940 ...

; a

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of author

Oskar Luts Oskar Luts ( – 23 March 1953) was an Estonian writer and playwright. Biography Oskar Luts was born into a middle-class family in Järvepera, central Estonia, at that time in the governorate of Livonia (Russian Empire). His younger brother was ...

' popular 1913 short novel of the same name. After production of the film ended, he appeared in the role of Agu Sihvka in the 1970 television film ''Agu Sihvka annab aru'' before returning to finish his studies at Tallinn 47th Secondary School, graduating in 1973. In 1977, he graduated from the Faculty of Cultural Education of

Tallinn Pedagogical University Tallinn University (TLU; , ''TLÜ'') is a public research university in Estonia. Located in the centre of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn University is one of the three largest institutions of higher education in the country. Both Q ...

. Between 1975 and 1983, he won several medals in Estonian national championships in karate. From 1992 until 2000, he was the president of Estonian Karate Federation. From 1991 until 2007, he worked as a counsellor at Estonian Foreign Ministry, including from 1995 until 1997 in

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, and from 2000 until 2003, in

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