Olavi Virta

Name: Olavi Virta
Director: Peter von Bagh
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Released: 1972-01-21
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Olavi Virta, Peter von Bagh

DocumentaryTV Movie8.0197230m

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Storyline

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.