Urmas E. Liiv

Directing

Urmas E. Liiv

Born

1966-11-17 (59)

Place of birth

Tõstamaa, Pärnu District, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Pärnu County, Estonia]

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

Urmas Eero Liiv (born November 17, 1966, in Tõstamaa, Pärnu County) is an Estonian film and television director. 2001-2012 he was the creative leader (Estonian: loovjuht) of the television channel Kanal 2. Since 2021 he is the creative leader of TV3's television channels.

Known for

Dora Who Came from Highway poster
1.7

At the center of Estonia's first full-length horror film are the brothers Markus (Franz Malmsten) and Tom (Kristjan Kasearu), who find themselves in a lonely forest cottage near a large highway.

Dora Who Came from Highway

2019

Ghost Mountaineer poster
4.9

An Estonian student hiking group get caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle, becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip and disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. A weird and insane chain of events is unleashed which seems to be orchestrated by the missing Olle. In a foreign land and among people they do not know, the hikers are faced with a task which they at first do not want to undertake and later are unable to tackle.

Ghost Mountaineer

2015

Eesti selgeltnägijate tuleproov poster
NR

There is no telling who will win the title of the best "Estonian Psychic".

Eesti selgeltnägijate tuleproov

2016

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Greetings from Soviet Estonia!

2007

August Is Looking for a Woman poster
NR

August had lived with his wife for 42 years, but she died of a stroke. August starts choosing a new wife. It so happens that August doesn't find a wife.

August Is Looking for a Woman

1998

No artwork available
4.0

The Bronze Night riots began on April 26, 2007, with the removal of a statue in central Tallinn. Estonians considered the so-called Bronze Soldier in the city center a symbol of Communist repression, while for many in the Russian-speaking community, the statue— originally named "Monument to the Liberators of Tallinn“— symbolized the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

Bronze Night: Russian Rebellion in Tallinn

2007

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Dora Who Came from Highway poster
1.7

At the center of Estonia's first full-length horror film are the brothers Markus (Franz Malmsten) and Tom (Kristjan Kasearu), who find themselves in a lonely forest cottage near a large highway.

Dora Who Came from Highway

2019

Dora Who Came from Highway poster
1.7

At the center of Estonia's first full-length horror film are the brothers Markus (Franz Malmsten) and Tom (Kristjan Kasearu), who find themselves in a lonely forest cottage near a large highway.

Dora Who Came from Highway

2019

Ghost Mountaineer poster
4.9

An Estonian student hiking group get caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle, becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip and disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. A weird and insane chain of events is unleashed which seems to be orchestrated by the missing Olle. In a foreign land and among people they do not know, the hikers are faced with a task which they at first do not want to undertake and later are unable to tackle.

Ghost Mountaineer

2015

Ghost Mountaineer poster
4.9

An Estonian student hiking group get caught up in a series of scary events unfolding in wintry Siberia. The unpopular group leader Olle, becomes disappointed in his companions during the trip and disappears on the last day in the mountains. His rival, liberal-minded and adventurous Eero guides the descending hikers into a Buryate village on the mountain to seek help. A weird and insane chain of events is unleashed which seems to be orchestrated by the missing Olle. In a foreign land and among people they do not know, the hikers are faced with a task which they at first do not want to undertake and later are unable to tackle.

Ghost Mountaineer

2015

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Greetings from Soviet Estonia!

2007

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Greetings from Soviet Estonia!

2007

August Is Looking for a Woman poster
NR

August had lived with his wife for 42 years, but she died of a stroke. August starts choosing a new wife. It so happens that August doesn't find a wife.

August Is Looking for a Woman

1998

No artwork available
4.0

The Bronze Night riots began on April 26, 2007, with the removal of a statue in central Tallinn. Estonians considered the so-called Bronze Soldier in the city center a symbol of Communist repression, while for many in the Russian-speaking community, the statue— originally named "Monument to the Liberators of Tallinn“— symbolized the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

Bronze Night: Russian Rebellion in Tallinn

2007

No artwork available
4.0

The Bronze Night riots began on April 26, 2007, with the removal of a statue in central Tallinn. Estonians considered the so-called Bronze Soldier in the city center a symbol of Communist repression, while for many in the Russian-speaking community, the statue— originally named "Monument to the Liberators of Tallinn“— symbolized the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

Bronze Night: Russian Rebellion in Tallinn

2007

Mis juhtus Diana Klasiga? poster
NR

Urmas E. Liiv’s new TV3 documentary sheds light on the moving life story of actress and singer Diana Klas. Why have many former colleagues and friends distanced themselves from her, and how has her meeting with Kerdo Mölder, singer of the popular band Respekt, changed her? What tragic chain of events led to this? The film will also feature rare materials from the personal archive of Diana’s father, Eri Klas.

Mis juhtus Diana Klasiga?

2025

Mis juhtus Diana Klasiga? poster
NR

Urmas E. Liiv’s new TV3 documentary sheds light on the moving life story of actress and singer Diana Klas. Why have many former colleagues and friends distanced themselves from her, and how has her meeting with Kerdo Mölder, singer of the popular band Respekt, changed her? What tragic chain of events led to this? The film will also feature rare materials from the personal archive of Diana’s father, Eri Klas.

Mis juhtus Diana Klasiga?

2025

Marju: The Call of the Heart poster
NR

A portrait film about one of the brightest legends of Estonian pop music, Marju Länik. How did Marju's nearly forty-year-long successful and glamorous stage career begin and what kind of life does she live in today's Estonia?

Marju: The Call of the Heart

2022