Name
Peter von Bagh
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1943-08-29
Deathday
2014-09-17 (71 years old)
Place of Birth
Helsinki, Finland
Biography
Kari Peter Conrad von Bagh (August 29, 1943 – September 17, 2014) was a Finnish film historian and director. Von Bagh worked as the head of the Finnish Film Archive, editor-in-chief of Filmihullu magazine and co-founder and director of the Midnight Sun Film Festival. From 2001, he was the artistic director of the film festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna. Von Bagh was a member of the jury in the competition category of 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
Films directed by Bagh have been screened at prestigious international forums, including retrospectives of his filmography at the 2012 Rotterdam International Film Festival, the 2012 Festival Internacional de Cine Independente in Buenos Aires, and the Tromsø International Film Festival in 2013.
Bagh's wrote approximately 40 non-fiction books, mostly on cinema, and some 60 films for both the cinemas and television include his internationally successful films Helsinki, Forever (2008) and Sodankylä, Forever (2010–2011), a documentary series of the first twenty-five years of the Midnight Sun Film Festival.
Known For
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A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland....
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Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miracu...
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Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnis...
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The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husba...
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In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years ear...
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Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race a...
- 2008 Helsinki, Forever as Narrator (voice)
- 2021 The Dinosaur as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family as Reader
- 2015 Temples of Dreams as Self
- 1991 Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Aki Kaurismäki as Self
- 2016 Peter von Bagh as Self
- 1972 Olavi Virta as Himself / Interviewer (voice)
- 2011 Suomalaiset ja raha – Rakkaustarina as Narrator
- 2002 The Man Without a Past as Salvation Army Officer
- 1999 Juha as Juha's Father
- 1970 Mondo Finlandia as Himself
- 2001 Aki Kaurismäki as Self
- 1996 Drifting Clouds as First Customer
- 2009 On the Trail of the New Wave as Self
- 1971 Kreivi as kertoja / mies tanssipaikalla
- 2013 Conversations Between Men as Haastattelija
- 2018 Aki and Peter as Himself
- 2010 Sodankylä Forever ( 4 episodes ) as Self - Narrator
