Bruno O'Ya

Bruno O'Ya

Born: February 12, 1933
Died: October 9, 2002
in Tallinn, Estonia
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.

Movies for Bruno O'Ya...

Nazis and Blondes
Title: Nazis and Blondes
Character: (archive footage)
Released: May 9, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Mr. Blot in Space
Title: Mr. Blot in Space
Released: December 5, 1988
Type: Movie
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...
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Rykowisko
Title: Rykowisko
Character: senator Mickey Caposta
Released: February 20, 1987
Type: Movie
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Title: Przyłbice i kaptury
Released: November 23, 1986
Type: TV
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Na całość
Title: Na całość
Character: Skandynaw
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: Movie
Two young men from the margins of society start a spiral of crime that gets out of control.
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Przyspieszenie
Title: Przyspieszenie
Character: Father Christmas
Released: March 4, 1985
Type: Movie
A movie director finds himself in a mid-life crisis
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Wedle wyroków twoich...
Title: Wedle wyroków twoich...
Character: chłop Pietrek
Released: September 3, 1984
Type: Movie
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.
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Heads Full of Stars
Title: Heads Full of Stars
Character: Oficer radzieski
Released: December 26, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Ostrze na ostrze
Title: Ostrze na ostrze
Character: Jacek Dydyński
Released: November 28, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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The Last One Will Go to Hell
Title: The Last One Will Go to Hell
Character: pasovský fendrich Hoff
Released: July 23, 1982
Type: Movie
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.
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Tender Spots
Title: Tender Spots
Character: Oficer
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: Movie
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.
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The Centaurs
Title: The Centaurs
Character: Nilson
Released: January 29, 1979
Type: Movie
The story takes place in an unnamed Latin Country.
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Title: Útek zo zlatej krajiny
Character: Elam Harnish
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: TV
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An Unknown Friend
Title: An Unknown Friend
Character: Bruno Linden
Released: January 20, 1978
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Soldiers of Freedom
Character: Otto Skorzeny
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: TV
The action of the epic film takes place in the second half of World War II. The plot focuses on the liberation of European countries from German occupation and the anti-fascist activities of the communist parties of these countries. After the victory at Stalingrad, a decisive turn occurred during the war. The main aim is the rallying of all patriotic forces, the creation of a national anti-fascist front in the struggling countries. The swift offensive of the Soviet troops, problems with the opening of a second front, major operations and the offensive of the Soviet army lead to the liberation of Europe. Rebellions are rising in different countries - such as the heroic uprising in Warsaw, in Slovenia, Bucharest and other cities. Brave heroes who performed immortal feats in the name of the happiness of mankind and freedom.
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Title: Calling 07
Character: Gryzboń's Bodyguard
Released: November 25, 1976
Type: TV
The series centres around the investigations of Police Lieutenant Sławomir Borewicz. Each episode features a different case being solved by Borewicz.
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Kazimierz Wielki
Title: Kazimierz Wielki
Character: Spytek from Melsztyn
Released: March 9, 1976
Type: Movie
The life and reign of Polish king Casimir III The Great.
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The Weddings of Ioan Assen
Title: The Weddings of Ioan Assen
Character: Knyaz Yuriy
Released: January 3, 1975
Type: Movie
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.
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The Deluge
Title: The Deluge
Character: Józwa Butrym
Released: September 2, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Possession
Title: Possession
Character: Wlasciciel kawalerki
Released: June 19, 1973
Type: Movie
A married couple is unsuccessfully trying to have a child. The woman decides to bring her husband closer to another woman.
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Copernicus
Title: Copernicus
Character: chorąży niosący sztandar na pogrzebie króla (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Poland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1973
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Black Rusks
Title: Black Rusks
Released: March 15, 1972
Type: Movie
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.
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Das letzte Wort
Title: Das letzte Wort
Released: July 17, 1971
Type: Movie
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Tauriņdeja
Title: Tauriņdeja
Character: Harijs Maurs
Released: February 19, 1971
Type: Movie
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Fatal Error
Title: Fatal Error
Character: Hank Jackson
Released: July 3, 1970
Type: Movie
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.
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The Red Tent
Title: The Red Tent
Character: Norwegian Radio Operator (uncredited)
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
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Wolves' Echoes
Title: Wolves' Echoes
Character: Piotr Słotwina, chorąży
Released: July 7, 1968
Type: Movie
A lonely Border Guard officer, with a girl and a former villain, has to face a local corrupt Militia (Police) commandant and his people, in wild Bieszczady Mountains in the Polish East.
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When Love Was a Crime
Title: When Love Was a Crime
Character: Denis Lenoir
Released: March 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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.
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Operation 'Trust'
Title: Operation 'Trust'
Character: Birk
Released: June 6, 1967
Type: Movie
A story about CHeKa operation against a foreign spies during the early years of Soviet Russia.
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On the Same Planet
Title: On the Same Planet
Released: October 31, 1966
Type: Movie
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Nobody Wanted to Die
Title: Nobody Wanted to Die
Character: Bronius
Released: December 24, 1965
Type: Movie
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.
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Time, Forward!
Title: Time, Forward!
Character: Thomas Bixby
Released: November 21, 1965
Type: Movie
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...
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Помни, Каспар!
Title: Помни, Каспар!
Released: September 20, 1965
Type: Movie
In January 1945 during WWII, German corporal Kaspar and a Russian fugitive become partners in survival.
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Early in the Morning
Title: Early in the Morning
Character: певец в ресторане
Released: March 21, 1965
Type: Movie
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 ...
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The Lark
Title: The Lark
Character: Obersturmbannfuhrer
Released: December 22, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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A Shot in the Fog
Title: A Shot in the Fog
Character: Attaché Binkl
Released: June 8, 1964
Type: Movie
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.
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General and Daisies
Title: General and Daisies
Character: Vladec Lekhovski
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie