Olavi Virta

Name: Olavi Virta
Genre: Documentary, TV Movie
Released: 1972-01-21
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Olavi Virta, Peter von Bagh

Olavi Virta (1972)

0:30 (30 min)

Documentary, TV Movie

Finland

7.2/10
31

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8/10
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7.1/10
29

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Actors and characters

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Production

YLE

Release date

21 January 1972

Director

Peter von Bagh

Scenario

Peter von Bagh

Actors

Olavi Virta

himself

Peter von Bagh

Himself / Interviewer (voice)

All actors and roles (2)

Short 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.

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