Paul Poom

Paul Poom

Paul Poom (born June 20, 1958) is a former Estonian stage, film, television, and radio actor whose career began in the late 1970s and ended in 1993 after an assault left him permanently disabled. Paul Poom was born and raised in Tallinn, where he attended primary and secondary schools; he is a 1976 graduate of Tallinn 37th Secondary School. Afterward, he enrolled in the Tallinn State Conservatory's (now, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre) Performing Arts Department to study acting under course instructor Merle Karusoo, who instructed the course in the educational theory and practice of Soviet pedagogue Anton Makarenko. Poom's first stage role was as a boy who runs away from home in a 1978 production of Rein Saluri's 1977 play Poiste sõidud at the Estonian Drama Theatre, directed by Mikk Mikiver. Poom would reprise the role for a 1980 Eesti Televisioon (ETV) television play. Poom graduated in 1980; among his diploma productions were the roles of Semjon Karabanov and Perets in Makarenko Colony in 1979 at the Estonian State Youth Theatre (now, Tallinn City Theatre) which was adapted from the Anton Makarenko-penned 1933 novel The Pedagogical Poem, and Don Juan in the Molière-penned 1665 comedy Le Festin de Pierre in 1980 at the Estonian Drama Theatre in Tallinn (then known as the Viktor Kingissepp Tallinn State Drama Theatre) and the Ugala theatre in Viljandi. Graduating classmates of Poom's included actors Roman Baskin, Guido Kangur, Arvo Kukumägi, Ain Lutsepp, Anne Veesaar, and Ülle Kaljuste. Paul Poom's first feature film role was as Peeter Viksur in the Peeter Simm-directed historical agitprop drama Ideaalmaastik in 1980 for Tallinnfilm which takes place just after World War II on an Estonian collective farm. This was followed by a smaller role in the 1981 Veljo Käsper-directed melodrama Pihlakaväravad. Poom appeared in approximately twelve feature film roles. His most prominent roles in feature films include that of Peetrus in the 1983 Kaljo Kiisk-directed Nipernaadi, which was a film adaptation of the 1928 novel Toomas Nipernaadi by August Gailit; as Cown in the 1984 Tõnis Kask-directed drama Kaks paari ja üksindus; as Aadu Kaarjas in the 1988 Aare Tilk-directed short feature film comedy Giordano; as Lembit in the 1989 Leida Laius-directed drama Varastatud kohtumine; and as Valter in the 1990 Sulev Keedus-directed period drama film Ainus pühapäev. His last appearance in a feature film was in the 1994 Jüri Sillart-directed romantic drama Victoria (Ühe armastuse lugu), based on the 1898 novel Victoria by Knut Hamsun, and filmed prior to the 1993 assault that left him disabled.

  • Title: Paul Poom
  • Popularity: 2.276
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1958-06-20
  • Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
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Paul Poom Movies

  • 1992
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    Come Back, Lumumba

    Come Back, Lumumba

    1 1992 HD

    Aurora, the new head of the culture centre in a small Estonian town, and her ward, nicknamed Lumumba, change the lives of Rein and his father who are...

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  • 1983
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    Doubles

    Doubles

    3 1983 HD

    A musical comedy about singer Toomas Aringus and rally driver Mati Uibo, whom journalist Tiina Salum considers to be one and the same person due to...

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  • 1990
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    The Flirt

    The Flirt

    1 1990 HD

    A heartfelt story about the borderlands of childhood, about a boy who is still a child, but who is touched by an inexplicable, barely discernible...

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  • 1983
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    The Adventurer

    The Adventurer

    4.8 1983 HD

    Toomas Nipernaadi is seen roaming the rural landscape, going from village to village looking for the woman of his dreams. He wears a bedraggled white...

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  • 1990
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    Awakening

    Awakening

    4.5 1990 HD

    It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian...

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  • 1981
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    The Ideal Landscape

    The Ideal Landscape

    4.3 1981 HD

    In post-World War II Estonia, Mait Kukemeri, an activist of the Young Communist League arrives to the Metsa collective farm in the back of a...

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  • 1982
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    Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter

    Arabella, the Pirate's Daughter

    6.8 1982 HD

    Arabella is a daughter of the world's most terrifying pirate captain. She loves her father but also dreams about a life of a usual girl. One day a...

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  • 1989
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    Giordano

    Giordano

    1 1989 HD

    The protagonist of this satirical short is a photographer whose camera captures photos of people's true nature. We often have to ask ourselves...

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  • 1989
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    Faulty Brides

    Faulty Brides

    1 1989 HD

    Rich nephews and beautiful girls can not get married, especially when neither of them have actually seen each other.

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  • 1988
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    Dance Around the Steam Boiler

    Dance Around the Steam Boiler

    6 1988 HD

    The movie travels through the 20th century by monitoring a steam boiler. We see the history of Estonia through life, agricultural work and people at...

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  • 1989
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    Stolen Meeting

    Stolen Meeting

    3.5 1989 HD

    A mother released from a prison camp in Russia finds her son, but realises that reconciliation is impossible.

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  • 1990
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    Sunday Only

    Sunday Only

    1 1990 HD

    50s quiet Estonian town. After a long separation, two brothers met in their parents' house. The younger one, Ilmar, a formerly capable artist, has...

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