Peter von Bagh
Director
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.
As Director
Filmography
The Man Without a Past
as Salvation Army Officer 2002
Drifting Clouds
as First Customer 1996
Juha
as Juha's Father 1999
Helsinki, Forever
as Narrator (voice) 2008
Kreivi
as kertoja / mies tanssipaikalla 1971
The Dinosaur
as Self (archive footage) 2021
Temples of Dreams
as Self 2015
Aki Kaurismäki
as Self 2001
Mondo Finlandia
as Himself 1970
Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family
as Reader 2011
Peter von Bagh
as Self 2016
Olavi Virta
as Himself / Interviewer (voice) 1972
On the Trail of the New Wave
as Self 2009
Aki and Peter
as Himself 2018
Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Aki Kaurismäki
as Self 1991
Suomalaiset ja raha – Rakkaustarina
as Narrator 2011
Conversations Between Men
as Haastattelija 2013