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Olavi Virta

Documentary, TV Movie | 1972-01-21 | Finland

IMDB6.0 / 10

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Runtime30 min.

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.

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