Peter von Bagh

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.

Directed

1. Helsinki, Forever (2008) — Director
2. Kreivi (1971) — Director
3. Sodankylä Forever (2010) — Director
4. Sininen laulu - Suomen taiteiden tarina (2003) — Director
5. The Last Summer 1944 (1992) — Director
6. Olavi Virta (1972) — Director
7. A Day at Karl Marx's Grave (1983) — Director
8. Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth (1968) — Director
9. Joulukuu (1969) — Director
10. Remembrance (2013) — Director
11. Socialism (2014) — Director
12. Edvin Laine — Director
13. Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family (2011) — Director
14. The Year 1939 (1993) — Director
15. Lauluja utopiasta (2017) — Director
16. Tapsa - Slashes from a Rover's Life (1980) — Director
17. Vanhan valtaus (1968) — Director
18. Liikemiehen muotokuva (1970) — Director
19. Paavo Nurmi - The Man and His Times (1978) — Director
20. The Story of Mikko Niskanen (2010) — Director
21. The Year 1952 — Director
22. Muisto - Itsenäisen Suomen ensimmäisten vuosien kertomus — Director
23. Suomalaiset ja raha – Rakkaustarina (2011) — Director
24. Man in the Shadows (1994) — Director
25. Lähikuvassa: Hassisen Kone (1983) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Man Without a Past (2002) — Salvation Army Officer
2. Drifting Clouds (1996) — First Customer
3. Juha (1999) — Juha's Father
4. Helsinki, Forever (2008) — Narrator (voice)
5. Kreivi (1971) — kertoja / mies tanssipaikalla
6. The Dinosaur (2021) — Self (archive footage)
7. Sodankylä Forever (2010) — Self - Narrator
8. Temples of Dreams (2015) — Self
9. Aki Kaurismäki (2001) — Self
10. Mondo Finlandia (1970) — Himself
11. Olavi Virta (1972) — Himself / Interviewer (voice)
12. Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family (2011) — Reader
13. Peter von Bagh (2016) — Self
14. On the Trail of the New Wave (2009) — Self
15. Aki and Peter (2018) — Himself
16. Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Aki Kaurismäki (1991) — Self
17. Suomalaiset ja raha – Rakkaustarina (2011) — Narrator
18. Conversations Between Men (2013) — Haastattelija