Movie

Olavi Virta

(fi)

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6.0

1972

30m

Olavi Virta

Documentary

TV Movie

Overview: 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.

Status: Released

Release date: January 21, 1972

Countries of origin: Finland,

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Production company:
  • YLE

Top Cast

Olavi Virta

Olavi Virta

as Himself

Peter von Bagh

Peter von Bagh

as Himself / Inter...

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