MSFF 2015 starts with Peter von Bagh tribute matinee

The Count, Peter von Bagh's only full length fiction film, will be screened during MSFF 2015.

Midnight Sun Film Festival co-founder and director, the late Peter von Bagh, will be honored on the opening day of MSFF 2015. Kino Lapinsuu will host an international von Bagh tribute matinee on Wednesday 10th of June from 10am to 3:30pm.

A comprehensive set of von Bagh’s short films will be screened during the matinee, not to forget rare clips from von Bagh’s unfinished documentary film about Agit Prop, a 1970’s political singer group from Finland.

Perhaps the most certificated von Bagh experts, scholar Sakari Toiviainen and producer-director Jouko Aaltonen, will discuss film guru’s life and work in Finnish. In international sequence of the matinee, Bernard Eisenschitz and Olaf Möller will take center stage, led by festival’s artistic director Timo Malmi.

Also several other works of von Bagh will be screened during MSFF 2015, such as his only full length fiction film The Count. A brand new documentary film about von Bagh by Arto Kaivanto will receive its Finnish premiere during the festival.

Included in the long list of films screened in Sodankylä are several of von Bagh’s favorite films, presented by either “Petteri” himself or experts such as Aki Kaurismäki. Among some of Petteri’s hit list are Howard Hawks’ Only Angels Have Wings, Michael Powell’s A Canterbury Tale and John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate.