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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Peter von Bagh

Peter von Bagh at IFFR

  • Remembrance – A Small Movie About Oulu in the 1950s

    Peter von Bagh takes us on a trip to his homeland and Oulu, a small Finnish town, tracing the turbulent changes it has undergone in the 20th century.

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  • Pockpicket – Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth

    Bresson topsy-turvy: the desolate rich put money into the pockets of the needy. Hilarious, and politically perversely poignant. Screened before The Co

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  • Olavi Virta

    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

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  • The Count

    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 exuber

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  • Man in the Shadows

    Otto Wille Kuusinen – communist, traitor, political survivor, is one of the most disputed characters of Finnish history. Von Bagh’s most journalistic

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  • A Time of Roses

    In 2012, a historian/artist tries to recreate the life of a loose woman from the 1970s – and gets lost in a hall of mirrors of his own creation. Quite

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  • Splinters – A Century of an Artistic Family

    A century of development, starting in the era of Finland’s nascent nationalism, when the country still belonged to Tsarist Russia, ending in the heyda

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  • Sodankylä Forever: The Century of Cinema

    Since 1969, masters of cinema have shown their films at the legendary Midnight Sun Film Festival and talked about their art. With choice moments from

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  • Helsinki, Forever

    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

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  • The Story of Mikko Niskanen

    Portrait of a genius as a troubled human being trying his best to find a way through life. A documentary about a too- little- known master of world ci

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