"The Singing Heart"
Laulava sydän (Hjärtats sång)
Le coeur chantant (French title)
Das singende Herz (German title)

Finland 1948 B/W 71min Oy Suomen Filmiteollisuus

**½

Drama

cast: Tauno Palo (Aarno Harjus/Con Amore), Eila Peitsalo (Rauni Verkkola), Mirjami Kuosmanen (Niina Harjus), Ville Salminen (Håkansson), Pikku-Annika (Annika), Wilho Ilmari, Elna Hellman (Anna), Ossi Elstelä (Viljami Erä), Tarmo Manni, Aarne Laine, Carl-Erik Creutz, Rauha Rentola, Ossi Runne, Henie Raichi
credits: dir. Edvin Laine, music Toivo Kärki, DOP Kalle Peronkoski, prod. T.J. Särkkä

A man and his little daughter lives together. The Man is busy. He has a good voice and soon he finds himself from a radio station, singing sweet songs (Yeah, there was a time, when all music in the radio was performed "live"). Stardom is a hard thing. He starts to eat pills and one day his little daughter eats those too, gets sick and death comes to their door...

The main problem of this movie is somekind of a distance. Tauno Palo looks and sounds good although he wasn't young anymore in late 40's.

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