Arvo Iho

Arvo Iho born June 21 1949 is an Estonian film director cinematographer actor and photographer who has worked in the areas of documentary and drama Born in Rakvere Iho worked as a photographer and assistant for Tallinnfilm before studying cinematography at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography Iho acted as assistant director to Andrei Tarkovsky on the 1979 film Stalker He went on to work as a cameraman for Tallinnfilm in the 1980s In 1985 Iho codirected the feature film Games for SchoolAge Children with Leida Laius also acting as director of cinematography and in 1987 made his solo directorial debut with The Birdwatcher about the relationship between a poacher and an ornithologist He followed this with Only for the Insane 1990 In 2001 he made The Heart of the Bear based on the Nikolai Baturin novel and in 2006 made Gooseberries As a photographer Iho has exhibited nationally and internationally As of 2017 Iho was a professor at Tallinn Universitys Baltic Film and Media School