Lembit Ulfsak

Acting

Lembit Ulfsak

Born 1947-07-04 · Koeru, Järva County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

Lembit Ulfsak (July 4, 1947 in Koeru – March 22, 2017) was an Estonian actor and director. Ulfsak spent his childhood in Räpina, where he also finished the 8th grade. In 1966, he graduated from Tallinn 7th Secondary School. From 1966 to 1970, he studied at the Tallinn State Conservatory's Department of Performing Arts (4th class). Ulfsak worked mainly at the Estonian SSR State Youth Theatre and Drama Theatre, as well as at Tallinnfilm. In addition to his theatre work, he acted in many films, the most internationally known of which are the leading roles in the films "The Legend of Till" (1976) and the Georgian-Estonian collaboration film "Tangerines" (2013), which was among the five best foreign language films in 2014 before the Oscar and Golden Globe awards. From 1972 to 1973, he sang in the Band Amor Trio. On June 1, 2019, a memorial bench installed in Ulfsak's honor was unveiled near his coastal home on the western shore of the Kakumäe Peninsula.

Acting credits

The Fencer poster
7.0

Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.

The Fencer

2015

The Eternal Road poster
6.6

Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.

The Eternal Road

2017

Blue Dress poster
4.5

Surreal worlds, elegiac images and romantic letters form a stream of suppressed memories. A young man discovers diaries and film reels of his recently deceased mother. Ukrainian director Igor Minaev melts his rarely seen shorts from Soviet times into an emotional journey into the past.

Blue Dress

2017

Tangerines poster
7.7

War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.

Tangerines

2013

In Search for Captain Grant poster
6.9

Lord and Lady Glenarvan found a bottle in the ocean. this bottle contained a letter from captain Grant that he and 2 of his sailors had survived a disaster in sea and need help. Unfortunately, the letter was damaged by water, and only latitude is known (37 degrees), but no longitude. The Glenarvans decide to find captain Grant.

In Search for Captain Grant

1985

Ask the Dead About the Price of Death poster
5.8

The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communists, failed and resulted in many lost lives on both sides. The Communists were forced underground.

Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

1977

The End of a Beautiful Epoch poster
6.5

Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.

The End of a Beautiful Epoch

2015

Windy Beach poster
9.0

The coastal people of Kaugatoma set out to build their own ship to earn a living independent of the baron's will. The baron does everything to prevent the venture, but still "Kaugatoma" raises its white sails. Unfortunately, the power of money turns out to be decisive both in the organization of joint activities and in the relations of the strong-natured captain Tõnis Tihu with the community and his loved ones. He abandons Liisu, with whom he has a son, and marries a wealthy widow. As a captain, he has the power to look after the welfare of the sailors, but he thinks more about his own safety. However, the winds of 1905 are already blowing over the sea.

Windy Beach

1971

White Curse poster
8.0

The holiday season in the mountains is in full swing. The message of the head of the avalanche station that an avalanche could soon descend is not taken seriously: neither by vacationers, nor by the director of the camp site. Reckoning for recklessness comes very soon: an avalanche goes directly to the hotel. Only the experience and courage of rescuers helps to avoid great casualties.

White Curse

1987

Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique... poster
4.5

Vadim, a part-time dump truck driver in Leningrad, picks up an extremely young woman, along with a newborn baby. Vadim is forced to spend the rest of his day with Anna, helping her untangle herself from unpleasant, dramatic, and even tragic situations – and she and she alone is to blame for all of them. The baby, which Anna stole in order to make an impression on an estranged lover, is finally returned to its parents, but the problems that the theft caused remain.

Dear, Dearest, Beloved, Unique...

1985

Doubles poster
3.0

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 their external resemblance.

Doubles

1983

The Wedding poster
8.0

An elderly man saves the life of an alien who is capable of time travel. They go back in time to the man's wedding day.

The Wedding

1980

The Lady in the Car poster
10.0

A young secretary, Helen, must take his boss's car to the garage. On the way she stumbles into unexpected déja vu adventures.

The Lady in the Car

1992

Kiri Giuliale poster
NR

Of the deminers combing the landscape, a young man walking without a detector finds himself on a mine. Since his companions cannot help him, the young man wants to dictate his goodbye letter to his wife.

Kiri Giuliale

1978

Lack of Wind poster
7.0

Taavi is worried about the lack of wind that won't let him do his daily job as a fisherman. But he is definitely not the guy who would just sit and wait for better days to arrive.

Lack of Wind

1971

The Price of Head poster
7.0

Commissioner Maigret's new case. At the rate of his further service in the police.

The Price of Head

1992

Spring in the Forest poster
5.2

Based on the novel “Ukuaru” by Veera Saar, a story about Minna, a young woman who has to make choices in the name of her true love, home, and the continuation of life.

Spring in the Forest

1974

No artwork available
NR

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

Faulty Brides

1989

Touched by the Unknown poster
6.0

Mati is an assistant in TV studio. Patiently he has waited for his time to become a TV star but seems that he has to wait forever. One day an alien called Tipp is sent on Earth (by its chief Tapp) to find out the purpose of Estonian children's TV show "Tipp and Tapp". Tipp nestles himself inside Mati's brains that leads the man to unpredictable actions.

Touched by the Unknown

2005

Landing poster
9.0

Reet loves her long-distance coxswain husband Rein, but the long separations have tortured her. It seems to her that the man cares more about his work than about her. Rein really loves his work, but his wife just as passionately. He does not understand how loneliness can overwhelm Reet, when women have always been waiting for men from far away. Their family friend Mart loves Reet and cannot see her suffer. It is in Marti's power to offer Reet a safe life, and the woman plagued by internal struggles makes a choice, but happiness seems to slip even further away.

Landing

1973

Daisy Petal Game poster
5.5

A three episode film consisting of three short films: "Promenade", "Poacher" and "Tattoo". The action of the films takes place in the 1930s in Estonia.

Daisy Petal Game

1978

The Smacking Sea poster
7.5

The Smacking Sea is a film about the work of traditional seal hunters on the smacking Baltic Sea and their life in the coastal village.

The Smacking Sea

1981

A Victim of Science poster
7.0

A satirical comedy about the monotonous, boring and largely meaningless life of small officials in a certain provincial town.

A Victim of Science

1982

Regina poster
4.8

Regina is a beautiful, educated and independent woman whose boyfriend tells her that he is going to marry a young girl expecting a baby. As Regina inherits a house in a little town, an opportunity arises to change her life.

Regina

1990

Behind the camera