Rein Oja

Rein Oja

Born: February 26, 1956
in Tallinn, Estonia
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

Movies for Rein Oja...

The Invisible Fight
Title: The Invisible Fight
Character: KGB Agent
Released: December 8, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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Dawn of War
Title: Dawn of War
Character: Colonel Saar
Released: October 6, 2020
Type: Movie
A historical spy-thriller set in 1939 about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
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Rain
Title: Rain
Character: Kalju
Released: September 17, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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The Salmons: 25 Years Later
Title: The Salmons: 25 Years Later
Released: July 1, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Maria's Paradise
Title: Maria's Paradise
Character: Lindgren
Released: October 4, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Lotte and the Lost Dragons
Title: Lotte and the Lost Dragons
Character: James (voice)
Released: January 4, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Mihkel
Title: Mihkel
Character: Pastor
Released: October 11, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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The Polar Boy
Title: The Polar Boy
Character: Hanna's Father
Released: May 10, 2016
Type: Movie
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.
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Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man
Title: Arne Dahl: The Blinded Man
Character: Kalju Laikmaa
Released: December 27, 2011
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: The Sandhamn Murders
Character: Mart Leppik
Released: December 20, 2010
Type: TV
Viveca Stens popular novels come to life in "The Sandhamn Murders", a perfect mix of Nordic crime & the beautiful surroundings of the outer Stockholm archipelago.
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Vasha
Title: Vasha
Character: Rain
Released: January 23, 2009
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Mood Breaker
Character: Various
Released: December 31, 2008
Type: TV
Estonian comedy sketch show consisting of parodies of popular Estonian movies or shows.
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December Heat
Title: December Heat
Character: Head of State Akel
Released: October 16, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Where Souls Go
Title: Where Souls Go
Character: Doctor
Released: October 25, 2007
Type: Movie
A teenage girl has problems with her family and life when her little brother is born with a heart problem.
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Georg
Title: Georg
Character: Richard
Released: October 5, 2007
Type: Movie
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.
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Mindless
Title: Mindless
Character: Rommi
Released: October 6, 2006
Type: Movie
A rich businessman moves to countryside to give his life a meaning.
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Visit of an Old Lady
Title: Visit of an Old Lady
Character: Journalist
Released: April 6, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Baltic Storm
Title: Baltic Storm
Character: Captain Arvo Kallas
Released: September 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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.
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Georgica
Title: Georgica
Character: Soviet Officer
Released: October 14, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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All My Lenins
Title: All My Lenins
Character: Bolshevik / NKVD Agent
Released: October 2, 1997
Type: Movie
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?
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Letters from the East
Title: Letters from the East
Released: October 4, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Too Tired to Hate
Title: Too Tired to Hate
Character: Man in a Mercedes
Released: November 23, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Wikman's Boys
Character: Mr. Pahkla
Released: January 8, 1995
Type: TV
Wikman's Boys is a 1994-year drama serial about the Wikman Private Gymnasium students from 1937 till their mobilization in 1944. The series is based on a 1988 novel Wikmani poisid by Jaan Kross.
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Jüri Rumm
Title: Jüri Rumm
Character: Hugo
Released: May 26, 1994
Type: Movie
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?
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The Firewater
Title: The Firewater
Character: First Bodyguard
Released: April 14, 1994
Type: Movie
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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Marraskuun harmaa valo
Title: Marraskuun harmaa valo
Character: Criminal
Released: April 23, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Title: Lamb in the Down Right Corner
Character: Reporter
Released: December 18, 1992
Type: Movie
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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Awakening
Title: Awakening
Character: Municipal Man #2
Released: February 22, 1990
Type: Movie
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.