Peter von Bagh Movies

Documentary about Finnish civil war

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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....

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

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...

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

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...