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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Peter von Bagh Director
First release January 21, 1972 · Produced in Finland
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Finland
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Finnish
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Finland · January 21, 1972
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