Peter von Bagh
Born: 1943-08-29 in Helsinki, Finland
Died: 2014-09-17
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2021
- The Dinosaur as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Aki and Peter as Himself
2017
- The Other Side of Hope ... (In Memory Of)
- Lauluja utopiasta ... (Director)
2016
- Peter von Bagh as Self
2015
- Temples of Dreams as Self
2014
- Socialism ... (Director)
2013
- Conversations Between Men as Haastattelija
- Remembrance ... (Director)
2011
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero ... (Writer)
- Suomalaiset ja raha – Rakkaustarina as Narrator
- Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family as Reader
2010
- Sodankylä Forever as Self
- Sodankylä Forever as Self - Narrator
- The Story of Mikko Niskanen ... (Director)
2009
- On the Trail of the New Wave as Self
2008
- Helsinki, Forever as Narrator (voice)
2003
- Sininen laulu - Suomen taiteiden tarina ... (Director)
2002
- The Man Without a Past as Salvation Army Officer
2001
1999
- Juha as Juha's Father
1996
- Drifting Clouds as First Customer
1994
- Man in the Shadows ... (Director)
1993
- The Year 1939 ... (Director)
1992
- The Last Summer 1944 ... (Director)
1990
- I Hired a Contract Killer ... (Idea)
1983
- A Day at Karl Marx's Grave ... (Director)
- Lähikuvassa: Hassisen Kone ... (Director)
1978
- Paavo Nurmi - The Man and His Times ... (Director)
1972
- When the Heavens Fall… ... (Writer)
- Olavi Virta as Himself / Interviewer (voice)
1971
- Kreivi as kertoja / mies tanssipaikalla
1970
- Kesäkapina ... (Writer)
- Bensaa suonissa ... (Writer)
- Mondo Finlandia as Himself
- Liikemiehen muotokuva ... (Director)
1969
- Time of Roses ... (Writer)
- Joulukuu ... (Writer)
1968
- Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth ... (Director)
- Vanhan valtaus ... (Director)