
Ruthless Times – Songs of Care
What you can't talk about, you have to sing
2022 fi 92 minutes
Rating: 6
Plot
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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Cast

Tiina Mollberg
Self

Marja Vaarama
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Jaana Pilvinen
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Väinö Lipponen
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Aino 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
Care worker (voice)

Anna Heinonen
Care worker (voice)

Minna Lajoma
Care worker (voice)

Kirsi Parviainen
Care worker (voice)

Sepi Kumpulainen
Self