Tõnu Oja

Tõnu Oja

Born: July 4, 1958
in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]
Tõnu Oja (born July 4, 1958 in Tallinn) is an Estonian actor. In 1980 he graduated from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. Since 2003 he has worked at the Estonian Drama Theatre. He has also played in films. His elder brother is actor and director Rein Oja and his sons are actor Pääru Oja and theatre CEO Kaarel Oja.

Movies for Tõnu Oja...

Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts
Title: Buttered Cards, Shattered Hearts
Character: Sad Man
Released: November 7, 2023
Type: Movie
After the death of the world's last cow, a young couple finds themselves on a hunt for butter through the labyrinth of their apartment building. When they finally reach the basement, a dangerous game for life and butter awaits them.
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Stairway to Heaven
Title: Stairway to Heaven
Character: Paul
Released: March 3, 2023
Type: Movie
With his last breath Uu's friend entrusts him with the secret of how to go to the past. Uu is an engineer and doesn't believe in miracles, but the trick works. In the past there is a pleasant, eternal summer, long hair, girls and Jenkki chewing gum. In his real life, it is autumn, his friends are bitter, the girls are married and his father is seriously ill. At the end of the day, however, Uu has to decide in which time to live his life - in the summer of the past or in the autumn of the present.
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The Prayer
Title: The Prayer
Character: Father
Released: December 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Jakop has been living by Peipsi for several generations. He is not the best fisherman and doesn't have much money. One day, Jakop's nephew arrives at the yard. Jakop has a chance get a thousand rubles if he agrees to make one small trip over the lake and back. Namely, the nephew has a fugitive in the car who thinks that he is on the north coast. But Jakop refuses the offer. However, he allows his nephew and the refugee to stay with him for the night. In the morning, however, the nephew leaves and leaves the speechless fugitive to Jakop's conscience. Jakop has to make a decision - whether he takes refugees across lake Peipus? In the whirlwind of events, memories come to life in Jakop's dreams about his brother and his suicide. Jakop begins to see similarities between the lost brother and the fugitive.
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Title: Musta kivi saladus
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Archie & Nellie, or How to Improve the Quality of Your Life and Live up to 100 Years
Character: Ārčijs
Released: December 27, 2021
Type: TV
A comedy in six series about two lonely seniors, Archie and Nellie, who try to keep finding new challenges and pleasures in life.
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Hunting Season
Title: Hunting Season
Character: Eva's Boss
Released: December 3, 2021
Type: Movie
Eva, 45, has recently divorced and is now afraid of losing both her son and her best friend to her ex’s new young, successful and brilliant sweetheart Isabel. To win back her positions, Eva goes on a road trip with her friend Marleen and Isabel, which makes the women confront different men, comical mishaps, even more comical quarrels, real hunting and most importantly themselves, forcing them to realise in the Christmas bustle what is most precious in life.
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Dawn of War
Title: Dawn of War
Character: Factory Manager
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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Goodbye Soviet Union
Title: Goodbye Soviet Union
Character: Grandpa
Released: July 10, 2020
Type: Movie
A humoristic coming-of-age story of Johannes who is born prematurely to a very young single mother. His destiny is to be always separated from his loved ones, to be “different”, to lose his hair because of pollution and to fall in love with a Chechen girl. All this during the turbulent times of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Self Made Cameraman
Title: Self Made Cameraman
Character: Papa Lebedev
Released: January 11, 2019
Type: Movie
An adventurous tragedy about Estonia's first film maker Johannes Pääsuke and his aspirations to travel around with a film camera and find happiness. Together with a good friend, Volter, Pääsuke will spend an incredible week in Setumaa.
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Lotte and the Lost Dragons
Title: Lotte and the Lost Dragons
Character: Svennur (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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Phantom Owl Forest
Title: Phantom Owl Forest
Character: August
Released: December 7, 2018
Type: Movie
A 10-year old girl's Christmas plans take an unexpected turn after she is brought to a mysterious Estonian farm.
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The End of the Chain
Title: The End of the Chain
Character: Gent
Released: September 20, 2017
Type: Movie
A secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot, where it's good to go because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people show up one after the other – all of them on the verge of a breakdown – or perhaps a breakthrough? The main character, Waitress, sees and absorbs it all. One by one – through their personal drama – the clients push the Waitress towards her own edge.
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When You Least Expect It
Title: When You Least Expect It
Character: Kai
Released: October 13, 2016
Type: Movie
There are two people who wake up in the same bed one morning, and neither of them has a clue who the other is. Viivi would like to run away and the man is sleeping like a log. Unlike Viivi and Andu themselves, the viewers know both very well. They know that Viivi has the worst day in her life and that Andu is a dweeb, but not completely hopeless; a rather good-hearted man. They are both hopelessly lonely people hoping that maybe there's someone somewhere - So they might as well meet.
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The Spy And The Poet
Title: The Spy And The Poet
Character: Endel
Released: September 23, 2016
Type: Movie
Lonely secret service officer Gustav meets a mysterious gypsy woman. It soon comes clear that it is a trap set by the Russian intelligence. Gustav is ordered to continue the relationship to get a better understanding of the enemy's plans. Unfortunately, Gustav finds himself struggling with the task, as he is falling in love with the enemy. Is there a way out of this situation?
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Secret Society of Souptown
Title: Secret Society of Souptown
Character: Officer Lippus
Released: May 15, 2015
Type: Movie
Four children - Mari, Sadu, Olav and Anton form a secret society to play hide-and seek games invented by Mari's grandfather, a professor at the university. When the city is attacked by a mysterious poison which turns adults into children our gang embarks on a quest for the antidote.
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The Fencer
Title: The Fencer
Character: Parent at the School Meeting
Released: March 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
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1944
Title: 1944
Character: Home Guard Lieutenant
Released: February 20, 2015
Type: Movie
The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to be made, not only by the soldiers, but also by their loved ones.
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Living Images
Title: Living Images
Character: Julius
Released: February 21, 2013
Type: Movie
The main character, Helmi, is born into the house of Baron von Strandmann in Old-Town Tallinn, in 1908. The only thing that she knows for sure about her past is that her mother was an Estonian servant girl. Everything else is a discovery during a life that runs the course of a century - a life that has quite a lot of surprises in store for Helmi. In this house she finds happiness and suffering, passion and disappointment. She grows up alongside young Erik and waits for her big love to blossom. But one floor down lives projectionist Julius - a man who is far from indifferent when it comes to Helmi. All of the biggest historical events of the century leave their mark on the house. Its hardwood floors have born soldiers' gruff boots and gentleman's shiny oxfords. Its walls have held the fates of people from far and near, foreigners and locals. Helmi's home becomes a German salon, a revolution museum, and a working class commune. And as freedom comes, real estate crooks start sniffing ...
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Happy Birthday
Title: Happy Birthday
Character: Robot (voice)
Released: December 22, 2011
Type: Movie
"Happy Birthday" is an outlook vision about the duel between the bible hero Jesus and a man-made robot. Does the robot manage to break the formed dogmas and convert the religion into his favour or will the status quo remain firm?
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Lotte and the Moonstone Secret
Title: Lotte and the Moonstone Secret
Character: Rihv the Moon Rabbit / Additional Voices (voice)
Released: August 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Plucky young Lotte embarks on an adventure with her uncle Klaus to solve the mystery of three stones that a pair of hooded figures are attempting to retrieve.
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Letters to Angel
Title: Letters to Angel
Character: Jeremia Juunas Kirotaja
Released: January 27, 2011
Type: Movie
A man sent to Afghanistan years earlier converts to Islam, then returns home to fight a different kind of war.
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A Friend of Mine
Title: A Friend of Mine
Character: Doctor
Released: January 7, 2011
Type: Movie
Mati, a 70-year-old bibliophile, cannot cope with his wife's death. As loneliness and indifference overrun his thoughts, he contemplates suicide until he meets a younger man who sparks his interest in life.
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Title: Isayev
Character: Карл Юрла, издатель газеты в Ревеле
Released: October 11, 2009
Type: TV
The series is set in the 1920s. It tells about the first tasks of Isaev. First, he goes to Reval to stop the smuggling of valuables stolen from Gokhran. Upon his return, he is sent to Vladivostok to collect information about the actions of the whites. Then he has to go abroad to monitor counterrevolutionary emigration.
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Title: Revenge Office
Character: Tarvo Lemmet
Released: April 30, 2009
Type: TV
A group of women create a organisation named "Kättemaksukontor" to fight for the rights of women and help solve murder mysterys for the police.
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Title: Windward Land
Character: Joosep Roo
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: TV
Tuulepealne maa is a twelve-part Estonian television mini-series about the pre-World War II history of Estonia, its birth as a country, the Estonian War of Independence, post-war life throughout 1920 up to 1941 and World War II.
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Taarka
Title: Taarka
Character: Vasso
Released: August 14, 2008
Type: Movie
The first film in the Seto language in the world speaks about the brightest heroine of a small people, the folk singer Hilana Taarka, a woman who lived her whole life as an outcast in a small chimney-less hut; as an unmarried mother of children in poverty, begging her bread, doing odd jobs and singing. She always sang the truth, sometimes bitter, sometimes funny, sometimes cruel. She was feared, despised and coveted. Taarka sang throughout her remarkable life, throughout her fate, from a small Seto village to international fame. And she sang well. Really well. Taarka became the Mother of the Song, a legend. But as a woman, as a member of the community, the Seto people never really accepted her. Taarka - a despised woman and a worshiped singer.
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Closing Session
Title: Closing Session
Character: (voice)
Released: April 11, 2007
Type: Movie
One night there gather weird figures to the Karahundzhi Palteau. They are the figures of God created by Man in different times and cultures - puppets. At the same time in some technical center they are printing out all letter combinations in all known languages. According to Tibetan monks this act - writing down all the names of God - will bring along the end of the universe. The Creator has decided to introduce the gods to each other before the great end.
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Lotte from Gadgetville
Title: Lotte from Gadgetville
Character: Giovanni (voice)
Released: August 25, 2006
Type: Movie
Somewhere in Europe by a great sea stands a small village, where inventing all manner of domestic gadgets is held in great esteem. Every year the villagers organize an annual competition of new inventions. One of the best inventors in the village is Oskar, Lotte's father. His primary rival is Adalbert, whose wife also partakes in the competition. On the eve of the next competition, Lotte and her friend Bruno find a book soaked in the sea, from which Susumu, a gardener from distant Japan, climbs out. Susumu teaches the villagers some judo throws before a big judo competition, which the latter will eagerly use to facilitate their daily lives.
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Old Men's Paradise
Title: Old Men's Paradise
Character: Leo
Released: December 31, 2005
Type: Movie
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August 1991
Title: August 1991
Released: February 24, 2005
Type: Movie
August 1991, military coup d'etat in Moscow. When Soviet tanks are on the streets of Tallinn, Estonia, all hopes for independence seem to be lost. People in the only local television station, ETV, are facing their own choices.
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The Curse of the Werewolf
Title: The Curse of the Werewolf
Character: Alterbaum / Margus
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Liina is a young actress at Vanemuise Theatre who gets Tiina's part in the new, postmodernist version of the play "Werewolf" by August Kitzberg. The theatre is haunted and the rehearsals seem to be cursed, artificial blood becomes real blood. The play won't be complete before the murder mystery is unsolved - and Liina is being taken back to the old theatre legends and intrigues of the past century.
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Revolution of Pigs
Title: Revolution of Pigs
Character: Operator
Released: March 18, 2004
Type: Movie
"Revolution of Pigs" is an adventurous youth comedy, taking place in a Woodstock-like milieu. The main character is Tanel, a 15-year-old boy, who, taking part of a youth revolt against the system, finds himself and his love.
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Set Point
Title: Set Point
Character: Man at Lasnamäe
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
On one summer evening, four strangers are brought together by a mysterious murder. A case which at first seems like a regular crime investigation turns out to be something more - a tale of love, alienation and new hope.
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Barbarians
Title: Barbarians
Character: (voice)
Released: October 24, 2003
Type: Movie
A mixture of popular stories are reversed and adapted to the Barbie universe. Queen Tiina (that's what these Barbies are called) asks who is the most beautiful in the city of Las Tiinas and someone dares to say that there is someone more beautiful than her. Immediately afterwards, Queen Tiina decides to kill the beautiful doll, who ends up in the sewers surrounded by forgotten toys (such as a melancholic Pinocchio and a charming rag doll).
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Karl and Marilyn
Title: Karl and Marilyn
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 29, 2003
Type: Movie
Karl is tired of the heavy burden of fame that oppresses him and he decides to liberate himself from it. He returns to life among so called ordinary people, after which he crosses paths with fame-seeking Marilyn. Ordinary Karl is the force that turns Marilyn into an idol of the masses. But not for long...
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Autumn
Title: Autumn
Character: Bruno Benno Bernhard
Released: December 20, 1990
Type: Movie
The main character of the film is Paunvere tailor Jorh Adniel Kiir. Two young seamstresses, Juuli and Maali, arrive in Paunvere. At first, Kiir regards them as competitors, but then he establishes friendly relations with them. Kiir marries Juuli, but he is not indifferent to Maali either. The film also follows Kiir's efforts to get his own farm.
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Title: Pätu
Character: Isa
Released: March 4, 1990
Type: TV
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The Gang
Title: The Gang
Character: Episode role
Released: December 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Paul Madvig is a businessman in an American town in the 1920s, doing everything to maintain his power. He plans to marry Janet, the daughter of senator Ralph Henry who must be re-elected in order to ensure Paul's position. Paul is sure of himself and treats his competitor Shad O'Rory, who is involved in the gambling business, with arrogance. Then the senator's son is murdered. It is rumoured that Paul is behind the murder. Private detective Ned Beaumont, an old friend of Paul's, starts to investigate the case. Based on the novel "The Glass Key" by Dashiell Hammett.
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What Would You Choose?
Title: What Would You Choose?
Character: Kilistik (в титрах - Тыну Оя)
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Four third-grader friends live in an old Leningrad house, study in the same class and try to understand their parents and teachers.
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Traces
Title: Traces
Character: Toomas
Released: January 13, 1964
Type: Movie