Olavi Virta (1972)

Release Date: 1972-01-21
Runtime: 0h 30min
Production Company: YLE
Production Country: Finland
Director: <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.cinebymovies.com/actor/1089713/peter-von-bagh"> Peter von Bagh
Writer: <a itemprop="url" href="https://www.cinebymovies.com/actor/1089713/peter-von-bagh"> Peter von Bagh

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.