The Film
Olavi Virta
The Story
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.
Runtime
30 min
Released Jan 1972
Directed by
Peter von Bagh
Written byPeter von Bagh
Gallery
The Stills.
