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...

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

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

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

Jonathan Ross interviews the inscrutable Finnish film director Aki Kaurismäki at The Midnight Sun Film Festival during the release of 'The Match Facto...

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

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 screened fo...

This short document tells the story of Bank of Finland and the history of money in Finland.

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost h...

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

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

Aki Kaurismäki, the celebrated Finnish filmmaker behind The Man Without a Past (Grand Prix du Jury, Cannes Film Festival 2002) and landmark works incl...

The ever-poker-faced Ilona loses her job as a restaurant hostess, as her tram driver husband, Lauri, also finds himself out of work. Together they mus...

Pertti Ylermi Lindgren was engaged to 76 women, married none, but took the money of all. Lindgren is the real thing, as far as swindlers go. Peter von...

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

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