Kari Peter Conrad von Bagh (August 29, 1943 – September 17, 2014) was a Finnish film historian and director. Von Bagh worked as the head of the Finnish Film Archive, editor-in-chief of Filmihullu magazine and co-founder and director of the Midnight Sun Film Festival. From 2001, he was the artistic director of the film festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna. Von Bagh was a member of the jury in the competition category of 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Films directed by Bagh have been screened at prestigious international forums, including retrospectives of his filmography at the 2012 Rotterdam International Film Festival, the 2012 Festival Internacional de Cine Independente in Buenos Aires, and the Tromsø International Film Festival in 2013. Bagh's wrote approximately 40 non-fiction books, mostly on cinema, and some 60 films for both the cinemas and television include his internationally successful films Helsinki, Forever (2008) and Sodankylä, Forever (2010–2011), a documentary series of the first twenty-five years of the Midnight Sun Film Festival.

Filmography

• 2017Lauluja utopiasta — Director
• 2017The Other Side of Hope — In Memory Of
• 2014Socialism — Director
• 2013Conversations Between Men — Haastattelija
• 2013Remembrance — Director, Writer
• 201160 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero — Writer
• 2011Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family — Reader, Director
• 2011Suomalaiset ja raha – Rakkaustarina — Narrator, Director
• Sodankylä Forever — Self - Narrator, Director, Screenplay
• 2010The Story of Mikko Niskanen — Director
• 2008Helsinki, Forever — Narrator (voice), Director, Writer
• Sininen laulu - Suomen taiteiden tarina — Director, Writer
• 2002The Man Without a Past — Salvation Army Officer
• 2000VÄNÄ — Camera Operator
• 1999Juha — Juha's Father
• 1996Drifting Clouds — First Customer
• 1994Man in the Shadows — Director, Writer
• 1993The Year 1939 — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1992The Last Summer 1944 — Director, Writer
• 1990I Hired a Contract Killer — Idea
• 1983A Day at Karl Marx's Grave — Director
• 1983Lähikuvassa: Hassisen Kone — Director
• 1980Tapsa - Slashes from a Rover's Life — Director, Writer
• 1978Paavo Nurmi - The Man and His Times — Director
• 1972Olavi Virta — Himself / Interviewer (voice), Director, Screenplay
• 1972When the Heavens Fall… — Writer
• 1971Kreivi — kertoja / mies tanssipaikalla, Director, Writer, Editor
• 1970Bensaa suonissa — Writer
• 1970Kesäkapina — Writer
• 1970Liikemiehen muotokuva — Director
• 1969Joulukuu — Director, Writer
• 1969Time of Roses — Writer
• 1968Pockpicket - Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth — Director, Writer, Cinematography
• 1968Vanhan valtaus — Director
• Edvin Laine — Director
• Muisto - Itsenäisen Suomen ensimmäisten vuosien kertomus — Director
• The Year 1952 — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (8)

• 2021The Dinosaur — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Aki and Peter — Himself
• 2016Peter von Bagh — Self
• 2015Temples of Dreams — Self
• 2009On the Trail of the New Wave — Self
• 2001Aki Kaurismäki — Self
• 1991Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: Aki Kaurismäki — Self
• 1970Mondo Finlandia — Himself