Olavi Virta (1972)

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.

Cast

Olavi Virta

Himself

Peter von Bagh

Himself / Interviewer (voice)