Olavi Virta

Olavi Virta

Birth : 1915-02-27, Sysmä, Finland

Death : 1972-07-14

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Olavi Virta

Movies

Ariel
Music
Taisto Kasurinen is a Finnish coal miner whose father has just committed suicide and who is framed for a crime he did not commit. In jail, he starts to dream about leaving the country and starting a new life. He escapes from prison but things don't go as planned...
Olavi Virta
Himself
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.
The Young Miller
Pentti Mäkinen (singing voice)
A young man arrives in the village. He becomes a miller and delights the girls in the village, which evokes bitterness in others. He is subject to moralistic criticism, even though he is in fact only in love with the tailor's daughter.
Rakas varkaani
(uncredited)
Pete and Runt as Park Nannies
Antti Markkanen
Justina urges Pete and Runt to get a job. As a result they meet an orphan boy named Otto while working as a park nannies. They offer to shelter the boy, but at the same time the father Antti, who has returned from the sea, is looking for his son together with Miss Raikas.
Kaksi vanhaa tukkijätkää
Kari Honka
Pekka ja Pätkä lumimiehen jäljillä
Timo Vaski
Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and takeJustiina along as a bait.
Minä soitan sinulle illalla
Risto Järviö
Pekka Puupää kesälaitumilla
Kalevi Vaski
Pekka is given the task of renting a summer place, but real estate agent Aadolf Muikku tricks him into buying a villa.
Kipparikvartetti
Olli Joki
Tervetuloa aamukahville eli tottako toinenkin puoli?
Kipparikvartetti
Vihaan sinua – rakas
Kaunis Veera eli ballaadi Saimaalta
Pekka
Tar Steam Princess Armada travels along Lake Saimaa to St. Petersburg and back during the years of Russian rule over Finland. The ship's crew gets tired of their sophisticated coffee maker and replaces her with Roma girl Veera, who has escaped from an arranged marriage. On the way back, mysterious passengers appear on the ship.
Hallin Janne
Song seller
In the late 19th century at Längelmäki two men kill a mailman and rob all the money he carried. Based on actual events.
Kalle Aaltosen morsian
Virta
The S/S Vellamo heads to Alexandria with Kaarina, the daughter of the ship's owner Hallerman, on board. As Kaarina trades places with the family's housekeeper Marja, first mate Yrjö takes a liking to Marja whom he believes to be miss Hallerman. Meanwhile Kaarina, pretending to be a member of the cleaning staff, starts getting close with lower ranking officer Kalle Aaltonen.
Nuoria ihmisiä
Klaus
Poikamies-pappa
(uncredited)
Jos oisi valtaa…
(uncredited)
Kulkurin valssi
(uncredited)
St.Petersburg, 1830. An arrogant Finnish baron is playing cards with a Russian officer. Needless to say, the Finn wins and the Russian gets extremely annoyed. The situation is not helped by the fact that the baron has been seeing a girl that the Russian officer has also set his eyes on. They decide to have a duel and after the Finn wins fair and square, he has to escape because the untrustworthy Russians are after him.
Rikas tyttö
Singer
A bored rich girl falls in love with a dock worker.