Bruno O'Ya
Also Known As: Bruno Oja, Оя Бруно Вернер, Бруно Оя
Biography: Bruno O'Ya (born Bruno Oja; 12 February 1933 – 9 October 2002) was an Estonian-Polish actor. In 1974 he starred in the Academy Award-nominated film The Deluge under Jerzy Hoffman. He also appeared in the 1978 film Centaurs. He released a folk album with 12 songs in 1973.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonian Republic
Birthday: February 12, 1933
Deathday: October 09, 2002
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Heads Full of Stars
Overview: Two young boys living in a small town in the east of Poland try to survive the war by working as projectionists in a local cinema. They provide entertainment to Poles, Germans and Russians alike.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-12-26
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Ostrze na ostrze
Overview: The action of the film takes place in the 17th century. Piotr Wolski returns to the country and is appointed juridic governor. A man tries to rule fairly and restore order. He soon falls in love with Konstancja, but his background causes problems.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1983-11-28
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Wedle wyroków twoich...
Overview: As the Germans invade Poland Jewish Ruth and her mother are trapped by the oncoming Nazis. When they are loaded onto a truck for transportation to a ghetto, Ruth is told by her mother to jump from the truck at the first chance and to make her way to relatives in Warsaw. While the war progresses Ruth tries to survive and grow up.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-09-03
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Mr. Blot in Space
Overview: It's Christmas, and children at an orphanage in Maliszewo receive a computer that was given to them by another orphan who used to live there many years ago. During the night, the computer awakes itself and tells the children a story that will happen in 25 years...
Genres: Fantasy Family
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1988-12-05
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Copernicus
Overview: A biography of Nicholas Copernicus covering 50 years of the astronomer's life - from his studies in Europe to his theological work all the way to the creation of his magnum opus, On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-02-14
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Kazimierz Wielki
Overview: The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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Fatal Error
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, the Wyoming Oil Company has established itself in the vicinity of Wind River City at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, where they have been illegally pumping oil from Native American territory. One of the company's greedy agents, Mike Allison, kicks out both his white partners and the Native Americans. He has his some of his associates secretly murdered and blames it on the Native Americans, who are then killed when they get in the way of his plans. Five chiefs with lifelong shares in the Oil Company die mysteriously as a result. The young chief Shave Head asks his a half-blooded brother Chris Howard for help.
Genres: Western Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-07-03
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Przyspieszenie
Overview: A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1985-03-04
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Nobody Wanted to Die
Overview: The film is set in Lithuania after the Second World War. It shows dramatic events in a small Lithuanian farming community, where people are split between the Soviets and the "brothers in the woods", who are fighting to defend their land from the Soviets after the end of the Second World War.
Genres: Drama Action History Western
Original Language: lt
Release Date: 1966-04-18
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Wolves' Echoes
Overview: A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia commandant and his people in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-04-14
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Tender Spots
Overview: The year is 1998 and the world is in an ecological cataclysm: there is shortage of water, environment is polluted and being outside brings high risks. The main character is a tv technician, Jan, an individualist, who is harassed by the conformists. Jan loves Ewa, a ballet student, who in turn is in a liaison with Allan, a successful and powerful man.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1981-08-28
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The Deluge
Overview: During the Swedish invasion of Poland, the brave warrior Andrzej Kmicic, considered a traitor to the nation, fights for a country, redemption and love across the 17th-century Polish territories.
Genres: History Adventure War Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1974-09-02
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The Red Tent
Overview: Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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Nazis and Blondes
Overview: Veteran actors from the 3 Baltic countries - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - gather at a castle in Latvia to receive awards for their roles as Nazi villains in propagandist Soviet war films. They reminisce about the films that made them famous throughout the USSR, but also stigmatized the Baltic countries as Nazi sympathizers in the eyes of many Russians - a misconception that is nowadays exploited by the Russian media, desperate to label the Baltic countries as a fascist haven.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2008-05-09
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Possession
Overview: A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1973-06-19
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When Love Was a Crime
Overview: A war drama showing the functioning of Hitler’s “racial purity” law, forbidding foreign workers from any contact with Germany. Foreigners on forced labor in Nazi Germany.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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49 Days
Overview: Four soldiers become stranded at sea after their barge gets blown away in a storm
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1962-03-15
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The Centaurs
Overview: The story takes place in an unnamed Latin Country.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-01-29
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Aktorka
Overview: A failed actress wants to go back to her husband, who has fallen into alcoholism.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1971-10-08
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The Lark
Overview: Russian prisoners of war commandeer a tank and lead the Nazis on a cross-country chase in this World War II adventure drama. The Russians use their own tanks so the Nazis can use them as target practice to test a new anti-tank weapon. Knowing that death is near, the brave Russians run amok and tear down German monuments before heading out to a field where female slave laborers are working.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-12-22
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The Weddings of Ioan Assen
Overview: The film takes us back into the times of the Second Bulgarian Kingdom - 13th century. The Bulgarian Emperor - Tsar Ioan Assen - is trying through several marriages to enlarge the State and to support the peace in it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: bg
Release Date: 1975-01-03
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The Last One Will Go to Hell
Overview: A historical film that takes place on the eve of the thirty year war combines aspects of fairy-tales with historical dramas, fencing with a child heroes who find themselves in great dangers. We are in the year 1611 and mercenaries that had previously invaded Czech lands now have to withdraw before the Hungarian king's army. In this chaos a magical bottle, that fulfills the owner one single wish, appears among some fugitives - however after the fulfillment it has to be sold for half it's price to a new owner. The director Ludvík Ráža has created an attractive and surprisingly cruel film aimed not only at young viewers.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1982-07-23
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Rykowisko
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1987-02-20
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On the Same Planet
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-10-31
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Time, Forward!
Overview: The film is set in the 1930s in the USSR. The film tells about one day of the construction of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The heroes of the film are simple construction workers who are burning at work. Upon learning that their colleagues in Kharkov have set a record, they mobilize to break it. The entire construction site was engulfed in immense socialist competition. The teams are ready to complete the work on time at any cost. A Moscow journalist who has come to cover the scale of the great construction project is looking for the hero of his report...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-11-21
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An Unknown Friend
Overview: The cold and ruthless Bruno is married to Karen. Together they seek out poor and defenseless people offering them life insurance policies. Bruno and Karen make sure that it pays off. A movie about insurance scams. Inspector Susikoski investigates.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1978-01-20
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Tauriņdeja
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: lv
Release Date: 1972-01-03
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Na całość
Overview: Two young men from the margins of society start a spiral of crime that gets out of control.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1986-09-15
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Black Rusks
Overview: The November Revolution of 1918 in Germany, famine and social upheaval evoke a response from the young Soviet government in Russia. To provide food assistance, trains with bread are being formed. One of them, on the personal instructions of V.I. Lenin is accompanied by the young revolutionary Tatyana . On the way, she meets a former German prisoner of war, Kurt . A romantic relationship arises between them. The train with bread, despite all the difficulties, was delivered. In a clash with a detachment of counter-revolutionary German troops, Tatyana was wounded. She returns to Moscow, and Kurt goes to Berlin to continue the revolutionary struggle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-03-15
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A Shot in the Fog
Overview: The very first work of a young scientist Igor Panteleyev caused a sensation. Not surprisingly, they are interested in foreign intelligence. Soviet security officers are taking measures to protect the scientist. The name of Panteleyev disappears from the pages of newspapers and magazines. The scientist is transferred to work in another research institute, changing his surname to Evdokimov. But due to chance, foreign spies found a researcher.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1964-06-08
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Early in the Morning
Overview: A story about the beginning of life. Having lost their parents early, Alyosha and Nadya were not left alone - the father’s friend and the people around them helped the children remain kind and open in this difficult world of adults ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-03-21
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Operation 'Trust'
Overview: A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia.
Genres: Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-05-22
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General and Daisies
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Помни, Каспар!
Overview: In January 1945 during WWII, German corporal Kaspar and a Russian fugitive become partners in survival.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-09-20
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Das letzte Wort
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-07-17
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The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin
Overview: A Russian engineer Petr Garin possesses a unique beam-shooting weapon that can destroy any target. His goal is to achieve world domination with the help of this weapon. Vasily Shelga is out to stop him and also to prevent others getting possession of this weapon.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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