Sodankylä Forever: The Century of Cinema
Sodankylä ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata
Finland
2010
90 Min
Color, Black and White
Finnish, English
Synopsis
The Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Finland, is a mecca for film lovers, famous for festival director Peter von Bagh’s in-depth and free-flowing interviews with visiting master directors. From the hundreds of hours of video recordings, von Bagh has made four feature-length documentaries that add up to a passionate and personal history of cinema. The first part, The Century of Cinema, focuses on World War II in relation to filmmaking. —Edinburgh International Film Festival
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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