Olavi Virta

8/10 1972 4K 30 min

Documentary • TV Movie

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.

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Olavi Virta

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Olavi Virta

Olavi Virta

Himself

Peter von Bagh

Peter von Bagh

Himself / Interviewer (voice)

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