Olavi Virta
Documentary
TV Movie
6 / 10
January 21, 1972
0h 30m
Language:Finnish
Director: Peter von Bagh
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.
