(Olavi Virta)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Finland

Genres:

Documentary,

TV Movie

Runtime:

30 minutes

Year:

1972

Directors:

Peter von Bagh

Production companies:

YLE

Actors:

Himself

Himself / Interviewer (voice)

Crews:

Director

Screenplay