Peter von Bagh Movies

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...

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....

An exemplary reconstruction of a historical turning point. Time and again, the images and the remembered stories.

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE is dedicated to filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki’s longtime friend and collaborator, the film critic and festival...

Peter von Bagh's documentary about Juhani Aho and people around him.

Renowned filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki, creator of The Man Without a Past (Grand Prix du Jury, 2002 Cannes Film Festival) and acclaimed films such as...

A bitter and moving 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...

A psychotherapist's life is wrecked when her private life is exposed in a sensation magazine.

An Italian mondo documentary about Finland. Among other things, it showcases intricacies of local mating culture, sports, Midsummer festivities and...

Piirainen's documentary on the last years of Peter von Bagh.

Two men and a woman, all rallye drivers, get too closely involved, competing in the race and in love.

Documentary about Finnish civil war

Socialism, the 20th century's greatest dream and source of some of its darkest nightmares. Divided into eighteen chapters which all begin with quotes...

After being struggling to finish his ninth book, an irrelevant author decides to try change his methods.

Paavo Nurmi (1897–1973) was one of the greatest athletes ever, and he had the wins to show it. For some time, his name was synonymous with...