Peter von Bagh Movies

The story of Agit Prop, communist band established in 1970.

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

In the year 2012 historian Raimo Lappalainen wants to illustrate how life was 50 years earlier. He becomes obsessed with the fate of a 1970s nude...

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 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...

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

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

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

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

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....

It took a dozen years, but in 1952 the greatest dream of sports-crazy Finland finally came true: The Helsinki Olympics happened.

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

Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening...

Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois

An interview with Aki Kaurismäki, with film clips and comments from colleagues.

Documentary about Finnish film theaters - about their past, disappearance and future. And at the same time universal story how cinema is undeniably...

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

Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972), as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was...