Movie

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.

Director

Peter von Bagh

Screenplay

Peter von Bagh

Status

Released

Release date

21/01/1972

Original language

Finnish