Paul Laasik

Paul Laasik

Acting
1949-07-29
Idrinsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]

Biography

Paul Laasik (born July 29, 1949 in Idrinskii District, Krasnoyarsk Krai) is an Estonian actor. Paul Laasik lived in Siberia until he was 7 years old, he graduated from Loksa Middle School in 1968 and the theater arts department of Tallinn State Conservatory in 1972 (5th flight). He worked as an actor at the Tallinn City Theater from 1972 to 1996. Then was a freelance actor. Paul Laasik has also acted in films, TV productions and serials (partner in Võsa's "ENSV").

Known For & Full Filmography26 Titles

#1ENSV

Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes as Seltsimees Võsa

8.8 / 10
Comedy

A comedy-series depicting an Estonian family in 1980s that consists of a rebel-minded grandpa, two siblings, a mother, who is a member of the Soviet Socialist Party, and her lover, who is there, because the real husband is a captain on a foreign-going ship. Aand they have to share their apartment with a true communist and her son, who is an exemplary militiaman.

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#2EnsV

Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes as Endel Võsa

8.8 / 10
Comedy

The opening part of the new season of the comedy series "EnsV" begins in the last days of 1991, when the USSR disappears from the world map. Unexpected guests arrive at the desert home. Living is reminiscent of a collective farm. Money is mixed with the feet. New Year's Eve plans are held in Kukeke and Illar's fantasies know no bounds.

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#3Ühikarotid

Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes as Komandant

8.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

Ühikarotid is an Estonian teen drama TV series that airs on Kanal 2. The series first aired on 8 March 2010. It's written by Martin Algus and produced by Tuuli Roosma. It's about students from different Estonian locations who spend their time in a student's dormitory in Tallinn.

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#4Hit Back

Movie - 1975, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Drama

The film invites its viewers to reflect on where modern sports have come to. Does a young, honest and uncompromising athlete have a future in the sport or must he go along with the dishonest tricks and the mean game that comes from it all?

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#5Ask the Dead About the Price of Death

Movie - 1977, 2h 15m as Boy

5.8 / 10
Drama

The attempted coup of Estonia on Dec. 1, 1924, conducted by Comintern, staged by the Soviet Communists, failed and resulted in many lost lives on both sides. The Communists were forced underground.

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#6The Fencer

Movie - 2015, 2h 15m as Parent at the School Meeting

7.0 / 10
DramaHistory

Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.

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#7The Class: Life After

Drama Series - 2010, 16 episodes as Radio Listener (voice)

6.9 / 10
Drama

The Class: Life After is a follow-up to the feature film The Class (Klass) and deals with the aftermath of a school shooting. Each one-hour episode focuses on a different character who survived or witnessed the tragic event. There are kids from the class, their parents, the class teacher, a boy who survived the shooting, and finally, one of the culprits in the very last episode.

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#8The Wedding

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Paul

8.0 / 10
Sci-FiDrama

An elderly man saves the life of an alien who is capable of time travel. They go back in time to the man's wedding day.

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#9The Master of Kõrboja

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Villu's Companion

4.1 / 10
DramaRomance

Anna, the daughter of an elderly owner of Kõrboja farm, is told by her father that if she won't move in their home farm then it will be sold to strangers. But the farm needs also a master, and Anna has been living in town for years. She comes back home and reunites with Villu, her friend from childhood.

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#10Regina

Movie - 1990, 2h 15m as Elmar

4.8 / 10
Drama

Regina is a beautiful, educated and independent woman whose boyfriend tells her that he is going to marry a young girl expecting a baby. As Regina inherits a house in a little town, an opportunity arises to change her life.

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#11In the Time of the Law of the Wolf

Movie - 1986, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
HistoryRomance

The love story of Liza Pesentak and the fearless patriot Melelave, who will go through a series of various trials before they find their happiness.

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#12Kratt

Movie - 2020, 2h 15m as Heino

4.3 / 10
ComedyFantasyHorror

Children are left at grandma's house without their smartphones. Real life seems rather boring until they find instructions for the Kratt - a magical creature who will do whatever its master says. All they have to do now, is to buy a soul from the devil.

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#13Autumn Ball

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m as TV Repairman

5.5 / 10
Drama

Autumn in Estonia, where six people live, six solitudes, prisoners of the monotonous architecture of Soviet-era concrete buildings, in search of human companionship, of love, of a ray of light in an ocean of gray.

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#14City Unplugged

Movie - 1993, 2h 15m as Dead Policeman Luks

6.2 / 10
ComedyThriller

In August, 1991, Estonia reclaims its independence from the USSR and brings to its national bank nearly $1 billion in gold bullion hidden in Paris for 50 years. Russian mobsters have a bold plan to hijack the gold after shutting down the capital's power at midnight

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#15Red Mercury

Movie - 2010, 2h 15m as Second Cab Driver

4.2 / 10
DramaActionComedy

It's the early 90's. A new currency is in circulation in Estonia - the kroon. The former federal republic has become a world leader in non-ferrous metal exports. There is a relentless struggle around this criminal business. It brings new victims every day. Estonia ranks first in Europe in terms of the number of killings. This is just the beginning...

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#16Mushrooming

Movie - 2012, 2h 15m as Organizer in the Woods (uncredited)

5.8 / 10
AdventureThrillerComedy

Politician Aadu Kägu goes to the mushroom forest with his wife Viivi to rest his nerves from the reputation campaign. They are joined by a voter, penniless rock star Zäk. In order to avoid common mushroom forests, they drive to some countryside at random. Soon the trio discovers that they are lost, at the same time a media scandal breaks out - the investigative press suspects that Kägu has misused state money. The fight for honor, life and death begins, both in the forest and in the city.

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#17Lamb in the Down Right Corner

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Patrolman #2 (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
AdventureComedyFamily

A warm movie about two boys, who discover a secret of a painting that was considered to be lost. The adventures begin, when a boss of a bunch of criminals finds out about the painting.

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#18The Joys of Midlife

Movie - 1987, 2h 15m as Lieutenant Kaseorg

5.6 / 10
ComedyDrama

Five people who have recently reached middle-age are driving through Estonia to visit a famous witch-therapist to get rid of their problems. The somber-funny road movie gives a good overview of the life, people and daily problems in Estonia at the end of the Soviet period.

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#19Stairway to Heaven

Movie - 2023, 2h 15m as Uncle Arno

6.3 / 10
Drama

With his last breath Uu's friend entrusts him with the secret of how to go to the past. Uu is an engineer and doesn't believe in miracles, but the trick works. In the past there is a pleasant, eternal summer, long hair, girls and Jenkki chewing gum. In his real life, it is autumn, his friends are bitter, the girls are married and his father is seriously ill. At the end of the day, however, Uu has to decide in which time to live his life - in the summer of the past or in the autumn of the present.

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#20Family Lies

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m as Electrician Eini

2.5 / 10
Drama

The film is set in a town that has a professional symphony orchestra, managed by authoritarian and confident Paul Levald, who has conducted both the orchestra and his family affairs for years. Due to dramatic events, Paul’s son-in-law Egon Rei must unexpectedly assume his duties. In addition to the baton, power and responsibility as well as the tensions in the orchestra, Egon inherits his father-in-law’s secrets and obligations from his complicated past. New lies are born out of old ones and, at some point, Egon realises that the revelation of truth might cause a real chaos. "Family Lies" by Valentin Kuik and Manfred Vainokivi is a relationship drama about elephants in the bedroom and skeletons in the closet, about small and big deceptions, half-truths and set-ups that can be found in every family’s secret chronicles.

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#21The Ideal Landscape

Movie - 1981, 2h 15m as Man with Glasses (uncredited)

4.9 / 10
Drama

In post-World War II Estonia, Mait Kukemeri, an activist of the Young Communist League arrives to the Metsa collective farm in the back of a traveling cinema truck. As a commissary of the spring sowing, he has orders to usher all the people to the field, even if the water is high enough to soak your boots and the machines sink in the mud. Harald Tuvikene, the head of the farm, keeps dragging his feet, trying to pitch his peasant wisdom against the senseless demands of the central power. For the first time in his life, Kukemeri faces a real problem - does he do what's right or does he follow the party's inept commands in order to further his own career?

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#22186 Kilometers

Movie - 2007, 2h 15m as Inseminator

3.2 / 10
Comedy

Jan Uuspõld is a talented actor who is not up to scratch due to his problems with alcohol. He makes up his mind to stop taking clownish roles and accepts a serious part in a play at Vanemuise theatre instead. His journey from Tallinn to Tartu becomes an unusual and in a way exaggerated voyage depicting the life and mentality of contemporary Estonia through various human natures, attitudes and ways of thinking.

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#23Indrek

Movie - 1976, 2h 15m as Vutt

8.8 / 10
DramaHistory

Based on the second part of the pentalogy "Truth and Justice" by Anton H. Tammsaare.

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#24Karlsson-on-the-Roof

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m as Rulle

8.8 / 10
FamilyTV Movie

Karlsson is a very short, portly and overconfident man who lives in a small house hidden behind a chimney on the roof of a very ordinary apartment building on a very ordinary street in Stockholm. When Karlsson pushes a button on his stomach, it starts a clever little motor with a propeller on his back, allowing him to fly. Karlsson is the best at everything, at least by his own account. In actual fact there is one thing at which he excels: being a playmate to a young boy named Svante, nicknamed Lillebror (little brother), who lives in the apartment building with his family. Karlsson is quite mischievous, often getting Lillebror in trouble, but everyone in the end – even Lillebror's family, his cranky uncle, and their dour housekeeper – grow to like Karlsson and appreciate his sense of humour, energy, and good nature.

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#25Those Old Love-letters

Movie - 1992, 2h 15m as Man in the Beer Hall (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
RomanceDramaMusic

A film about the life of Raimond Valgre, an Estonian songwriter and singer of the 1930s and 40s, the political changes of his country and his life after the war when his songs were considered not suitable for the Soviet way of life.

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#26The Firewater

Movie - 1994, 2h 15m as Restaurant Visitor

7.0 / 10
CrimeDrama

At the end of the 1920-s the Finnish government proclaimed dry law which lasted 12 years. Estonian bootleggers living on the neighboring coast of the Gulf of Finland profited from prohibition......

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