Helsinki, Forever

Helsinki, ikuisesti

Finland

2008

74 Min

Color, Black and White

Finnish

Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
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DP Pekka Aine, Felix Forsman, Pirjo Honkasalo, Timo Salminen

CAST Siiri Angerkoski, Ritva Arvelo, Susanna Haavisto, Ansa Ikonen, Mervi Järventaus, Liana Kaarina, Veli-Pekka Kaitue, Kullervo Kalske, Kaarlo Kartio, Aku Korhonen, Åke Lindman, Regina Linnanheimo, Gustaf Mannerheim, Esa Niemelä, Masa Niemi, Paavo Nurmi, Kati Outinen, Tuulikki Paananen, Turo Pajala, Esa Pakarinen, Jaakko Pakkasvirta, Tauno Palo, Matti Pellonpää, Markku Peltola, Matti Ranin, Tapio Rautavaara, Olavi Reimas, Joel Rinne, Esko Salminen, Ville-Veikko Salminen, Irma Seikkula, Vilho Siivola, Markku Toikka, Leif Wager

SOUND Ilmo Lintonen

Rotterdam (Signals: Peter von Bagh), Nordic, San Francisco (Documentaries): Mel Novikoff Award

Synopsis

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 portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years. —The Finnish Film Foundation

Director

Peter von Bagh

Peter von Bagh (born 29 August 1943 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish film historian and director. He currently works as a professor of film history in the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He has written around 20 books about film and worked as a presenter for numerous television and radio programs about film and other popular culture. Von Bagh has previously worked as the head of the Finnish Film Archive. He is the editor-in-chief of Filmihullu magazine and the festival director of Midnight Sun Film Festival. He has also directed the Bolognese film festival Il Cinema Ritrovato for nine years running.

He was a member of the jury in the competition category of 2004 Cannes Film Festival. —Wikipedia

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Scott Barley

30Dec12

Despite a lot of Finnish narration, subtitles are not necessary. I was swept away with the imagery and the cultural history.

Yuki Aditya

13Jul10

"Cinema is a place where people shares the same dream" (Jean Cocteau), that must be the initial notion for Von Bagh when he started to think about the film and it could be applied to the city Helsinki. Told and cross-referenced with other art form such as painting, sketches and of course cinema, it's one of the most beautiful, thoughtful love letter to a city.