Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

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.

Cast

Tiina Mollberg

Self

Marja Vaarama

Self

Jaana Pilvinen

Self

Väinö Lipponen

Self

Aino Lipponen

Self

Väinö Martikainen

Self

Eila Martikainen

Self

Maija Tirkkonen

Self

Helena Järvikylä

Self

Raili Kekäläinen

Self

Crew

Susanna Helke

Director

Markku Heikkinen

Writer

Markus Leppälä

Editor

Juuso Oksala

Sound Designer

Sari Aaltonen

Director of Photography

Inka Lahti

Editor

Susanna Helke

Writer

Samu Kuukka

Editor

Timo Korhonen

Producer

Anna-Mari Kähärä

Original Music Composer