Director
Peter von Bagh
August 29, 1943 · Helsinki, Finland
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Elina Salo
4 titles together
The Man Without a Past, Drifting Clouds, Kreivi
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Jorma Pulkkinen
3 titles together
Bensaa suonissa, When the Heavens Fall…, Kesäkapina
Markku Peltola
2 titles together
The Man Without a Past, Drifting Clouds
Kati Outinen
2 titles together
The Man Without a Past, Drifting Clouds
Sakari Kuosmanen
2 titles together
The Man Without a Past, Drifting Clouds
Sulevi Peltola
2 titles together
Helsinki, Forever, Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth
Full filmography · 25
Edvin Laine
Director
Upcoming
Lauluja utopiasta
Director
2017Socialism
Director
2014Remembrance
Director and Writer
2013
Conversations Between Men
as Haastattelija
2013
Suomalaiset ja raha – Rakkaustarina
as Narrator and Director
2011
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Writer
2011
Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family
as Reader and Director
2011
Helsinki, Forever
as Narrator (voice) and Director and Writer
2008
The Man Without a Past
as Salvation Army Officer
20027.4
Drifting Clouds
as First Customer
19967.6
Man in the Shadows
Director and Writer
1994