Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

What you can't talk about, you have to sing

APPROPIATE

2022 / 92min.

Rating6

Genres

Documentary

Music

Synopsis

A choir of tired nurses sing to Anna-Mari Kähärä’s hypnotic tunes about the truths of everyday nursing work in a musical documentary directed by Susanna Helke and co-scripted by Helke and Markku Heikkinen. DocPoint’s opening film is new in its format, and jolting in its message. It is a cinematic-musical work of activism, calling for more humane work, life and old age.

Directors

Actors

Tiina Mollberg

Marja Vaarama

Jaana Pilvinen

Väinö Lipponen

Aino Lipponen

Väinö Martikainen

Eila Martikainen

Maija Tirkkonen

Helena Järvikylä

Raili Kekäläinen

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