Jüri Järvet

Jüri Järvet June 18 1919 July 5 1995 was an Estonian actor His name sometimes appears as Yuri Yevgenyevich Yarvet an incorrect backtransliteration from the Russian transliteration ??? ?????????? ????? His birthname was Georgi Kuznetsov and he took the Estonian form in 1938 Järvet is best known in the West for the role of Dr Snaut in Andrei Tarkovskys Solaris but he played in numerous other films both in Russian and his native Estonian He was awarded the title of Peoples 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 son Jüri Järvet Jr has also acted in several movies including All My Lenins and Khrustalyov My Car