Jüri Järvet (18 June 1919 â€" 5 July 1995) was an Estonian actor.
His name sometimes appears as Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet, an incorrect
back-transliteration from the Russian transliteration Юри
Евгеньевич Ярвет. His birthname was Georgi Kuznetsov,
and he took the Estonian form in 1938.Järvet's mother was Russian,
while his father has been believed to have been a French or ethnic
German immigrant from Lorraine.Järvet is best known in the West for
the role of Dr. Snaut in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, but he played in
numerous other films both in Russian and his native Estonian. He was
awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1975, and the USSR
State Prize in 1981.Järvet played the title role in a powerful
version of King Lear (1971) filmed on bleak landscapes in his native
Estonia by Russian director Grigori Kozintsev and released in 1970.
Kozintsev shared the screenwriting credit with Boris Pasternak; the
score was by Dmitri Shostakovich.
His name sometimes appears as Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet, an incorrect
back-transliteration from the Russian transliteration Юри
Евгеньевич Ярвет. His birthname was Georgi Kuznetsov,
and he took the Estonian form in 1938.Järvet's mother was Russian,
while his father has been believed to have been a French or ethnic
German immigrant from Lorraine.Järvet is best known in the West for
the role of Dr. Snaut in Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, but he played in
numerous other films both in Russian and his native Estonian. He was
awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1975, and the USSR
State Prize in 1981.Järvet played the title role in a powerful
version of King Lear (1971) filmed on bleak landscapes in his native
Estonia by Russian director Grigori Kozintsev and released in 1970.
Kozintsev shared the screenwriting credit with Boris Pasternak; the
score was by Dmitri Shostakovich.
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