Olavi Virta

1972 • 0h 30m • Documentary, TV Movie

8.0(2 votes)

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.

Director

Peter von Bagh

Writers

Peter von Bagh

Status

Released