Rein Oja
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Biography: Rein Oja (born February 26, 1956) is an Estonian actor, film director and theatre leader. Rein Oja was born in Tallinn. He is the older brother of actor Tõnu Oja. In 1978 he graduated from Tallinn State Conservatory. In 1978-1997 he worked at Noorsooteater/Tallinn City Theatre. Since 1998 he is a freelancer
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Birthday: February 26, 1956
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Gender: Male
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Too Tired to Hate
Overview: This modern western depicting juvenile crime takes as its theme the struggle of an individual against a vicious circle of violence. The spiral of violence and revenge is only broken when one person conquers himself and refuses to continue the vendetta. Siim, a 14-year old who grew up in the streets, is only spared the violence because he has a natural antipathy to it. Ultimately he too is caught up in the fighting when he tries to save money for his girlfriend's Christmas gift and the cash is stolen.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1995-11-23
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Where Souls Go
Overview: A teenage girl has problems with her family and life when her little brother is born with a heart problem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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The Firewater
Overview: 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......
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1994-04-14
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Marraskuun harmaa valo
Overview: Kari Syysmäki, a Finnish Businessman is on a vacation with his wife in Tallinn. When his wife is away a young man enters their hotel room with a gun. He tells to the businessman that he has just tried to rob a bank, but accidentally shot one of the clerks. Now he's hiding from the cops. But when the bank robber forgets his gun on the table, Syysmäki grabs it and shoots him in the back. After that Syysmäki refuses to travel back to Finland with his wife. He stays in Tallinn and soon he's about to face both the cops and the mob of Estonia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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Georgica
Overview: A quiet Tarkovskian drama about an old man who lives alone on a deserted island which the Soviet fighter planes use for nighttime target practicing. A young mute boy is sent from the mainland to keep him company. Both are haunted by memories, the boy about his mother and the old man about his younger days as a missionary in Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1998-10-14
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Georg
Overview: Unforgettable melodies, unique timbre and a memorable, soul-stirring voice. A mystery for women and authority for men, his talent was revered by the highest ranks of the Soviet Union and millions of ordinary people. Georg Ots took the stage when a huge country was recovering from the horrors of war, and his voice returned them faith in a bright future. Few people know what his life was really like.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2007-10-05
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Lotte and the Lost Dragons
Overview: Lotte gets a little sister named Roosi. Two scientists Karl and Viktor come to Gadgetville, they are taking part in a big folk song collecting competition. Whoever succeeds in recording the folk song of the world’s oldest animal species, wins the competition’s grand prize. Lotte and Roosi decide to help the scientists. Exciting and unexpected adventures await the sisters.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2019-01-04
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Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1992-12-18
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Vasha
Overview: Tom, a wide-eyed, innocent sixteen year-old, finds himself an unwitting accomplice in a deadly game of vengeance and death when he befriends Artur - a Chechen man, hell bent on revenging the torture and murder of his family - on the streets of Tallinn.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-23
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December Heat
Overview: The young country of Estonia is dancing to the jazzy tune of the 1920's when on December 1, 1924, the capital Tallinn is overrun by members of the Comintern in an attempt to stage a Communist coup. The film follows the fates of a young soldier called Tanel and his wife, a telephone operator named Anna, amidst the ensuing chaos which determines whether the country remains independent or becomes a minor province in the Communist Empire.
Genres: War Action Drama History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2008-10-16
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Mindless
Overview: A rich businessman moves to countryside to give his life a meaning.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2006-10-06
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Maria's Paradise
Overview: A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fi
Release Date: 2019-10-04
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Baltic Storm
Overview: A journalist from Berlin, Germany, and a Swedish lawyer discover the truth behind the sinking of the "MS Estonia" in 1994, where more than 850 people drowned.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-01
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All My Lenins
Overview: Young and active nationalist Aleksander Kesküla makes up his mind to use Lenin, the Bolsheviks' leader, in order to start a revolution in Russia with German money and create a new national state of Estonia in the north-east of Russia. For security reasons, five doubles will be found and trained for Lenin. All of them are finally sent to Russia to instigate the revolution. How will the real Lenin put up with all this?
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1997-10-02
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Visit of an Old Lady
Overview: As a young woman, Claire left her hometown in disgrace. Now she is old and unimaginably rich, as for the first time she returns. The town is nearly bankrupt and in urgent need of money. Everybody hopes Clara will come to the rescue. And she will. However, there is a condition: somebody must kill the man who was her lover all those years ago.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2006-04-06
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Mihkel
Overview: Mihkel boards a ferry from his small town in Estonia to Saint Petersburg in Russia, on his way to Iceland, where he wants to make a new life for himself and his fiancée, Vera. His friend Igor, who emigrated to Iceland a few years earlier, convinces Mihkel to smuggle two bottles of liquid amphetamine and then seek payment from an Estonian priest, who is a business partner of Igor’s in Saint Petersburg. The priest is then to set him up in his new home and bring Vera over to join him. Rather than getting paid, he is instead coerced into swallowing seventy drug capsules to take on to Iceland. He arrives in Iceland and is picked up by Igor and his two Icelandic accomplices, Jóhann and Bóbó. However, in the next two days it becomes clear that something is wrong and Mihkel cannot pass the drugs. The Icelandic criminals become very nervous, and more and more frantic activity ensues as the situation becomes more serious.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: is
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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The Invisible Fight
Overview: After surviving a deadly attack, a guard on the Soviet-Chinese border decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's capable of becoming the enlightened man he set out to be.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2023-12-08
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The Polar Boy
Overview: Mattias has a dream to become a photography student of the Berlin Arts Academy. On the journey of following his calling, his dream is constantly put to a test after Mattias falls in love with a beautiful free spirit Hanna. Trying to win her heart, Mattias feels the need to prove Hanna, that he can be just as adventurous and unpredictable as she is. Breaking the law together with Hanna, Mattias risks everything dear to him, not knowing yet, that Hanna's bold acts are only the symptoms of bipolar disorder. In the moment of jelousy Mattias accidentally commits a crime that could put him behind bars for years. The only escape he sees is to get himself declared irresponsible. In order to achieve that Mattias decides to start faking the illness her gilfriend really has - bipolarity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2016-05-10
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Jackpot
Overview: It is a political parody film against totalitarian system of violence, about the careless game of power that has been played with the world and peoples.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1990-10-10
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Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man
Overview: Arne Dahl - Misterioso A failed robbery attempt at Sydbanken outside Avesta leaves one robber lying dead with a dart through his eye, but there are no witnesses to the incident and no perpetrator is ever identified. In Stockholm, three high-profile businessmen are assassinated in a short period of time, and Jenny Hultin of National CID is assigned the task of putting together a special team to solve the case before the assassin strikes again.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2011-12-27
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Awakening
Overview: It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are waiting to transport thousands of Estonian families, asleep in their homes, to Siberia. The Stalinist regime is ready to treat people like animals.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1990-02-22
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Jüri Rumm
Overview: Jüri Rumm is a hot-tempered young peasant who is not afraid of either German barons or the Russian czar, barfights or disobedience to his master's orders. Mari, a gentle peasant girl, loves Jüri despite the fact that he is very popular among young women. Evelin is a quick-tempered baron's daughter who is used to get everything she wants, including a peasant boyfriend who considers himself a free man. Yet, the free man becomes an outlaw. Where will the runaway's love lead him?
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 1994-05-26
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Letters from the East
Overview: A woman returns to her native Estonia to unravel the complex mysteries of her family's past. Set in 1989, against the background of the Baltic territory's struggle for peace and independence from the Soviet Union.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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The Salmons: 25 Years Later
Overview: A lot has happened in a quarter of a century, but the Salmons have remained who they were - Estonia's first family, who have been viewed with both admiration and quiet envy. Viewers of the former series remember how well the Salmon family was able to make money. Now they have secured an even more powerful position in the society, because Ella Salmon has become the President of Estonia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2020-07-01
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Rain
Overview: The film follows 12-year-old Ats, whose older brother Rain unexpectedly returns to the family home in a small seaside town to face their authoritarian father Kalju and their mother, a woman on the verge of losing love. Ats is a witness to the clash between his father and brother, two stubborn men from different generations with radically different views of the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2020-09-17
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Dawn of War
Overview: A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2020-10-06
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Two of Me
Overview: A humorous take on the specifics of being a twin, that puts the idea that two heads are better than one to the test. Raul and Romet Esko who have shared everything stand facing the challenge of starting an independent life. But how is being alone possible as a twin without being together? Seemingly even more impossible than that is the brothers’ goal to earn a living from filmmaking in Estonia.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: et
Release Date: 2024-11-29
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