
Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972), as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was screened for the first time,…
Documentary, TV Movie • Movie • 1972 • 30m
Starring: Olavi Virta, Peter von Bagh
Director: Peter von Bagh
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Olavi Virta
Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972), as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was screened for the first time, people all over Finland went ballistic – they couldn't take the sad sight of their tango's greatest voice, the incarnation of postwar wealth and glory in ruins.
Documentary, TV Movie • Movie • 1972