Ruthless Times – Songs of Care

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.

• Susanna HelkeDirector
• Markku HeikkinenWriter
• Susanna HelkeWriter
• Anna-Mari KähäräOriginal Music Composer

• Tiina MollbergSelf
• Marja VaaramaSelf
• Jaana PilvinenSelf
• Väinö LipponenSelf
• Aino LipponenSelf
• Väinö MartikainenSelf
• Eila MartikainenSelf
• Maija TirkkonenSelf
• Helena JärvikyläSelf
• Raili KekäläinenSelf
• Rosa AaltonenCare worker (voice)
• Anna HeinonenCare worker (voice)