Signals: Peter von Bagh
Overview of films
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Blue Sky – Journey Into the Land of Memories
Peter von Bagh | 71' | Finland | None
The dance pavilion considered as the centre of social life, with the Finnish tango as the key to the collective unconscious – the dream life… -
The Count
Peter von Bagh | 92' | Finland | None
Portrait of a real-life swindler – played by himself! Von Bagh’s feature debut: a weird ‘n wild mix of fact and fiction, documentary scenes and… -
A Day at Karl Marx’s Grave
Peter von Bagh | 16' | Finland | None
A hundred years after the great 19th-century German philosopher’s demise, ordinary people from some 20 nations talk about his legacy. To the people, M -
Drama of Time
Peter von Bagh | 15' | Finland | None
A brief essay on time triggered by a hostage crisis drowned in blood. A fine cinematic exercise in philosophy. Screened before A Time of Roses. -
Eight Deadly Shots
Mikko Niskanen | 316' | Finland | International premiere
A poor farmer tries to get by, but fails. Blood is shed, not out of malice, but simple desperation. A raw exposé on human degradation… -
Helsinki, Forever
Peter von Bagh | 74' | Finland | None
Helsinki vu par Peter von Bagh: a vision of Finland’s capital through the ages, created with pictures and sounds from myriads of films, newsreels and -
Land of the Pharaohs
Peter von Bagh | 29' | Finland | None
Sights and tunes from postwar Finland interspersed with quotes from Mika Waltari’s classic Sinuhe egyptiläinen (1945). An astonishing exercise in read -
The Last Summer 1944
Peter von Bagh | 105' | Finland | None
A plunge into the last months of Finland’s WWII in all its tired gruesomeness. A fugue of dour, sad, doubt-ridden, sorrow-filled faces, confessions an -
Man in the Shadows
Peter von Bagh, Elina Katainen, Iikka Vehkalahti | 165' | Finland | None
Otto Wille Kuusinen – communist, traitor, political survivor, is one of the most disputed characters of Finnish history. Von Bagh’s most journalistic -
Olavi Virta
Peter von Bagh | 30' | Finland | None
Olavi Virta, Finnish tango’s greatest voice, as an old, lost and lonely man. Time as the great leveller in all its morose unforgivingness. Screened be -
Paavo Nurmi – The Man and His Times
Peter von Bagh, Markku Koski | 61' | Finland | None
Paavo Nurmi is a sports legend, a name people know to this day. For Finland, Nurmi was an ideal, an axiom of the nation’s spirit… -
Pockpicket – Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth
Peter von Bagh, Pertti Maisala | 18' | Finland | None
Bresson topsy-turvy: the desolate rich put money into the pockets of the needy. Hilarious, and politically perversely poignant. Screened before The Co