Ruthless Times – Songs of Care (2022)
"What you can't talk about, you have to sing"
Overview
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.
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Tiina Mollberg
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Marja Vaarama
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Jaana Pilvinen
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Väinö Lipponen
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Väinö Martikainen
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Eila Martikainen
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Maija Tirkkonen
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Helena Järvikylä
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Raili Kekäläinen
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Rosa Aaltonen
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Anna Heinonen
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Minna Lajoma
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Kirsi Parviainen
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Sepi Kumpulainen
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