Peter von Bagh Movies

Documentary about Finnish civil war

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois

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

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

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