Etel Röhr

A 2015 Finnish short film.

The Singer is a film about the all-time favourite singer in Finland, Olavi Virta. A man who rose from poverty all the way to the top and became an artist who was dearly loved by the Finnish people. A man who loved beautiful women and was loved by beautiful women. A man who enjoyed speed, American cars, applause and alcohol and who finally lost everything but his unique voice.

Detective sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crime Unit loses his daughter in a tragic way. Despite the support of his closest colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Harjunpää is unable to recover from the loss of his family. He seeks revenge against his daughter's killer, while in his work he investigates strange deaths in the Helsinki metro that turn out to be the work of a serial killer.

In 1844, Hans Christian Andersen imagines the story of an evil troll who wants to drive the sun out of the hearts of humans. To do this, he hangs a huge magic mirror in front of the moon. When it breaks, the people touched by its shards become insensitive. This is the plot of the multidisciplinary work performed in the setting of the Tampere ice rink in Finland, with music composed by Tuomas Kantelinen.