Oja Kodar
Also Known As: Olga Linka, Olga Palinka, Olga Dan Palinkas, Olga Palinkas, Olga Palinkaš
Biography: Oja Kodar (/ˈɔɪ.ə ˈkoʊdɑːr/ OY-ə KOH-dar; born Olga Palinkaš; 1941) is a Croatian actress, screenwriter and director known as Orson Welles's partner during the later years of his life. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oja Kodar, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dubrava kraj Zagreba, Croatia, Yugoslavia [now Croatia]
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Birthday: January 01, 1941
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Female
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F for Fake
Overview: Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Overview: Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the perspective of Oja Kodar (life and artistic partner of Orson Welles in his last years).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-08
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Collision at the Paralels
Overview: Suspicious husband follows his wife and her male boss on their business trip.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-07-16
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A Piece of Blue Sky
Overview: A story about several people who share the same yard within their block, and a piece of blue sky above 'em.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Someone to Love
Overview: A Hollywood film director assembles a group of friends and strangers for a social gathering on Valentines Day in a deserted movie theater where he interviews each one on their opinions on love and loneliness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-11
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Orson Welles in the Land of Don Quixote
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-11-05
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The Dreamers
Overview: Footage shot for Orson Welles' unfinished and unreleased film project, edited into a short documentary.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-05
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The Other Side of the Wind
Overview: Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles's lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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The Deep
Overview: A couple's honeymoon trip aboard a yacht leads to a claustrophobic drama when another vessel runs into their voyage, apparently drifting. Shot in a piecemeal fashion between 1966 and 1969 and plagued with production problems, this film never completed principal photography and never entered post-production. The original negatives are now considered to be lost, and the film only exists in two incomplete workprint versions (one color and one black-and-white), which have received isolated public screenings since 2007.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-08
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Circle of Love
Overview: In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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X-Ray of a Killer
Overview: The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-31
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The Merchant of Venice
Overview: A short film directed by Orson Welles based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. While actually completed, it is frequently cited as an unfinished film, though better described as a partially lost film due to the loss of film negatives. A restored and reconstructed version of the film, made by using the original script and composer's notes, premiered at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival alongside Othello as part of the pre-opening ceremonies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Overview: The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and radio, a modern Shakespeare, a magician who was always searching for a new trick to surprise his audience, a romantic and legendary figure who lived only for cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-12-12
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London
Overview: Five comedy vignettes: 1) Churchill, 2) Swinging London, 3) Four Clubmen, 4) Stately Homes, 5) Tailors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-31
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The Well
Overview: Tracing Orson Welles time in Spain.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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Don Quixote
Overview: Don Quixote, accompanied by Sancho Panza, wander the roads of Spain protecting the weak and doing good deeds in the name of his beloved Dulcinea. (Orson Welles' Don Quixote was filmed between 1957 and 1972, left unfinished at his death in 1985, and was eventually edited by Jesús Franco and released in 1992.)
Genres: Adventure Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-20
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La donna a una dimensione
Overview: Paola, still young and married to a rich industrialist, seeks an outlet to the uselessness of her life by coming into contact with the young activists of the student movement, meetings she attends. Paula tries to convert even her teenage children Afdera and Prando, to the ideas of the movement, who end up accepting the mother's convictions and agree to participate in an action of sabotage against a large factory. But when they discover that the factory to be sabotaged is precisely that of the father, they renounce the mission, disappointing the mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Overview: As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-31
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Working with Orson Welles
Overview: "Working with Orson Welles" is a low-budget production put together by Gary Graver, who worked as a cameraman for Welles in the last 15 years of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Jaded
Overview: After getting beat up by her husband, a woman leaves home and seeks refuge at her cousin's place, surrounded by a strange assortment of people, including an equally abused transsexual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Jerk in Istanbul
Overview: Vincent And Gregoire have just won a lot a money. The latter wants the whole pile and flies away to Turkey where he meets a compatriot, Appoline, and her boss Samos.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-07-23
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Orson Welles Over Europe
Overview: When Orson Welles went into self-imposed exile in Europe, he first found stardom with The Third Man and then immersed himself in challenging films, television, theatre and bullfighting. Simon Callow trails the complex actor-director.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-27
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The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla
Overview: Life and times of Nikola Tesla, famous scientist whose inventions were stolen, but whose greatest contribution to mankind remain a mystery to this day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1980-02-19
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The Other Side of Welles
Overview: Film The Other Side of Welles portrays the life, work and intellectual heritage of Orson Welles in Yugoslavian federal unit "Socialist Republic of Croatia". Through the period of 25 years, he appeared as actor in several co productions made in Croatia (David and Goliath, Tartars, Austerlitz) - acted in few Yugoslavian film (Battle of Neretva, The Secret of Nicola Tesla) and directed two of his own film: The Trial and The Deep. As a Hollywood maverick, in Croatia he often found his shelter. Through the never before seen archive materials and the interviews with the people who worked with him, directors of this film, in the 90th anniversary of his birth and 20th of his passing, reveal the other side of Orson Welles
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2005-06-03
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Searching for Orson
Overview: Narrated by Peter Bogdanovich, this biography of Orson Welles includes the emotional memoirs of actress Oja Kodar and interviews with Steven Spielberg, James Earl Jones, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Frank Marshall, Paul Mazursky, Henry Jaglom, Gary Graver, and Merv Griffin; it's re-release is even more profound since Welles' unfinished film, The Other Side of the Wind, was completed and released.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-02
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