Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
February 24, 1953
Died
March 12, 2026 (73 years old)
Kiviõli, Kiviõli District, Tallinn Oblast, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Ida-Viru County, Estonia]
Peeter Simm
Biography
Peeter Simm (born February 24, 1953; Kiviõli – March 12, 2026) was an Estonian film director.
Peeter Simm studied at Nõo Secondary School in a physics class and graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow (cum laude) in 1976 with a degree in feature film directing.
From 1975 to 1993, Simm worked at Tallinnfilm, first as an assistant director, then as a feature film director.
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In 1993, he founded the studio Lege Artis Film. As a director, he collaborated with many studios. He also directed in the theater, made language training and advertising films, television programs, etc.
He worked as a visiting professor of film directing at the Baltic Institute of Film, Media, Arts and Communication.
