Peter von Bagh
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Peter von Bagh at IFFR
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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