The Swan and the Wanderer

The film is about two Finnish musicians. Tapio Rautavaara was a singer and a songwriter. Repe Helismaa did the same work. The two worked together for many years. Their songs were much loved in the country. The account begins in 1949. It runs up to 1965. Finland is changing in those years. Life after the war slowly improves. Popular music changes its shape as well. The bond between the two men breaks down in time. For a long stretch they do not speak. The film tells that falling out. The songs are set inside the story. Tapio Liinoja and Martti Suosalo appear in the one hundred seventeen minute film, a Finnish production Timo Koivusalo finished in 1999.