Peter von Bagh

After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide... (imdb)

Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years. (www.ses.fi)

Director, film historian, professor Peter von Bagh takes us on a stroll down the memory lane, to the 1950's small-town Oulu, the town where he grew up. This extensive film essay utilizes a variety of archive materials: Film footage, still photos, paintings and other art works. The film paints a kaleidoscopic view of the arctic town and its spirit, awakening one youth, one era, one town magically. The movie is personal and local as well as general and universal. (muisteja.illume.fi)

Peter von Bagh draws a portrait of Tauno Palo - one of the most popular finnish actors in 20th century, acting in theatre for over 45 years and on film for 30 years - tying together material from fiction films and an interview which was made a year before his death.

In the year 2011, historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude model, Saara Turunen, and finds a perfect actress to reconstruct her life and death in front of a TV camera. Meanwhile, a strike at a nuclear plant is covered up by the media. (imdb)

A family like a nation: Finland's painful path to independence, its development from a poor rural backwater to a prime example of progress and liberalism as seen through three generations of the Aho family. (filmfestivalrotterdam.com)

Peter von Bagh spends a day at the Highgate Cemetery, London, shooting and interviewing people - tourists, passers-by and pilgrims alike - who visit the grave of Karl Marx on the philosopher's centennial anniversary.

Portrait of Finnish singer Olavi Virta,

A four-part documentary about the Sodankylä film-festival in Finnish Lapland.