Film

Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

6.020221h 32mSDocumentary Music

Age rating: S
Director: Susanna Helke
Year: 2022

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

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.

Top cast

Tiina Mollberg

Self

Marja Vaarama

Self

Jaana Pilvinen

Self

Väinö Lipponen

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Aino Lipponen

Self

Väinö Martikainen

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Eila Martikainen

Self

Maija Tirkkonen

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Helena Järvikylä

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Raili Kekäläinen

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Rosa Aaltonen

Care worker (voice)

Anna Heinonen

Care worker (voice)

Minna Lajoma

Care worker (voice)

Kirsi Parviainen

Care worker (voice)

Sepi Kumpulainen

Self

Directed by

Susanna Helke

Written by

Markku Heikkinen, Susanna Helke

Produced by

Timo Korhonen