Peter von Bagh

Peter VON BAGH (1943, Finland) is a film historian and a film, radio and television maker. He has made more than fifty documentaries, written around 20 books, and worked as the head of the Finnish Film Archive. Von Bagh is currently the chief editor of Filmihullu magazine and the festival director of Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä. Furthermore he works as a professor of film history in the University of Art and Design in Helsinki and he is the artistic director of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna.

Filmography

(selection) Vanhan valtaus (1968, short doc), Pockpicket eli katkelmia helsinkiläisen porvarisnuoren elämästä/Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth (1968, short), Joulukuu (1969, short doc), Liikemiehen muotokuva (1970, short doc), Kreivi/The Count (1971), Olavi Virta (1972, short TV doc), Sinitaivas - Matka muistojen maisemaan/Blue Sky - Journey into the Land of Memories (1978, doc), Paavo Nurmi - Mies ja aika/Paavo Nurmi - The Man and His Times (1978, TV doc), Vuosi 1952/Year 1952 (1980, doc), Päivä Karl Marxin haudalla/Day at Karl Marx's Grave (1983, short doc), Ajan draama/Drama of Time (1986, short doc), Jukeboxin ikivihreät (1988, short doc), Faaraoiden maa/Land of the Pharaohs (1988, short), Asema/Station (1989, short doc), Viimeinen kesä 1944/The Last Summer 1944 (1992, doc), Olavi Virta (1992, doc), Vuosi 1939 (1993, doc), Mies varjossa/Man in the Shadows (1994, TV doc), Erään oopperan synty (1996, short doc), Victor Erice & Unelma valosta (1997, short doc), Helsinki, ikuisesti/Helsinki, Forever (2008, doc), Mikko Niskanen - Ohjaaja matkalla ihmiseksi/The Story of Mikko Niskanen (2010, TV doc), Sodankylä ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata/Sodankylä Forever: The Century of Cinema (2011, doc), Lastuja - Taiteilijasuvun vuosisata/Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family (2011, doc), Muisteja - pieni elokuva 1950-luvun Oulusta/Remembrance - a Small Movie About Oulu in the 1950's (2013, doc)

Peter von Bagh op IFFR