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Olavi Virta

Olavi Virta

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 21, 1972

Runtime

0h 30m

Genres

Documentary, TV Movie

User Score

60%

Original Title

Olavi Virta

Production Companies

YLE

Director

Peter von Bagh

Description

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.