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Salme Reek
Acting

Salme Reek
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1907-11-10,Pernau, Pernau County, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire [now Pärnu, Pärnu County, Estonia]
Gender
Female
Biography
Salme Reek (November 10, 1907 – June 6, 1996) was an Estonian stage, film, radio, and television actress and stage director whose career spanned nearly seventy years; sixty-six of which were spent as an actress at the Estonian Drama Theatre. Salme Helene Reek was the oldest of three siblings born to paper pulp factory worker Juhan Reek and housewife Julia Reek (née Erberg) in Pärnu. Her younger siblings were Hilda (1911–1990), and Oskar (1922–1939) who died at age seventeen. During Reek's early years, the family lived in near-poverty in a one-room apartment on Suur-Kuke Street, later moving into a two-room studio apartment. Both of Reek's parents were keenly interested in music; her father Juhan played the piano and the harmonium and her mother Julia sang as a first soprano in the family's Lutheran church choir. Both parents were also theatre enthusiasts and Reek often attended theatre productions at Pärnu's Endla Theatre during her early childhood. Reek began her primary school studies in Pärnu before the family relocated to Tallinn, then returning to Pärnu approximately four years later. The family subsequently returned once more to Tallinn, where Reek attended secondary school at Tallinn 2nd Girls' Gymnasium (now, Tallinn Kristiine Gymnasium), graduating in 1927. Reek performed well in history and language classes and excelled in gymnastics. Just after graduation in 1927, Reek enrolled in studies at the Drama Theatre Studio School in Tallinn, founded in 1920 by actor and theatre pedagogue Paul Sepp, graduating in 1930. From 1929 until 1933, Reek studied dance with Estonian choreographer and dance teacher Gerd Neggo who, because of Reek's difficult financial situation, taught Reek without charge. Reek made her feature film debut in a small role in the 1969 Soviet-Estonian comedy-drama Hullumeelsus, directed by Kaljo Kiisk for Tallinnfilm. This was followed by the role of Epp in the Kiisk directed drama Tuuline rand in 1971, also for Tallinnfilm. In 1972, she played the role of Amanda in the Veljo Käsper directed and Enn Vetemaa penned World War II drama Väike reekviem suupillile. Reek also appeared in a number of other small roles in films during the 1970s, including the Veljo Käsper directed dramaTuulevaikus in 1971 and the Kaljo Kiisk directed romantic-drama Maaletulek in 1973. In 1976, she made an appearance in the Veljo Käsper directed drama film Aeg elada, aeg armastada. In 1981, Reek appeared in the role of the character Tuiska's wife in the Arvo Kruusement directed period drama Karge meri; a film adaptation of the 1938 novel of the same name by August Gailit about the lives of seal hunters in a small village on the Baltic Sea. In 1984, she appeared in the Helle Karis directed fantasy-family film Karoliine hõbelõng. In 1989, she appeared in the Igor Voznesensky directed Russian language science fiction film Idealnoe prestuplenie, and in 1991 appeared in a small role in another Russian language film, the Aleksandr Polynnikov directed adventure-comedy Obnazhyonnaya v shlyape. Other films include the 1992 Jüri Sillart directed period drama film Noorelt õpitud, the 1992 Lembit Ulfsak directed family-comedy film Lammas all paremas nurgas, and the 1993 Ilkka Järvi-Laturi directed dark comedy Tallinn pimeduses. Throughout her career, Reek also appeared in a number of short films

Filmography

3

Doubles
1983-05-11

8

Võsakurat
1976-09-06

7

The Firewater
1994-04-14

9

Windy Beach
1971-01-03

Lamb in the Down Right Corner

6.818

Lamb in the Down Right Corner
1992-12-18

0

Judo Boys
1987-01-01

5.167

Pisuhänd
1982-01-31

6.2

City Unplugged
1993-06-06

Candles in the Dark

6

Candles in the Dark
1993-12-03

9

Landing
1973-01-02

7

Giordano
1989-03-05

10

Fish Day
1989-12-17

4.25

Prompter
1993-04-19

0

To a Cold Land
1965-07-19

Karoliine's Silver Yarn

5

Karoliine's Silver Yarn
1985-05-16

0

Mishuk
1975-07-02

0

The Tin Men
1984-12-28

Little Requiem for Harmonica

9

Little Requiem for Harmonica
1972-10-23

6.1

Madness
1969-02-17

The Smacking Sea

7.5

The Smacking Sea
1981-11-20

6.125

Perfect Crime
1990-05-21

7

The Sunny Kids
1992-02-03

An Unusual Story

8

An Unusual Story
1974-12-23

8

Pöördel
1957-12-02

10

Underwater
1973-02-01

Armastuse lahinguväljad

8.5

Armastuse lahinguväljad
1992-08-28

7

Lack of Wind
1971-10-18

6.1

The Red Tent
1969-12-23