Peter von Bagh Movies

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

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

Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois

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

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...

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....

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

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...

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

In a world of cold facts, this film speaking in more than 20 languages offers a vision of a world momentarily united and willing to listen to the...

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

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

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

A TV documentary about the Finnish band Hassisen Kone and its frontman Ismo Alanko.

Documentary about Finnish civil war