Director, film historian, professor Peter von Bagh takes us on a stroll down the memory lane, to the 1950’s small-town Oulu, the town where he grew up. This extensive film essay utilizes a variety of archive materials: Film footage, still photos, paintings and other art works. The film paints a kaleidoscopic view of the arctic town and its spirit, awakening one youth, one era, one town magically. The movie is personal and local as well as general and universal.
Films by Peter von Bagh are award-winning works that have travelled around the world. World-renowned critic Jonathan Rosenbaum chose von Bagh’s film Helsinki, Forever as one of the 10 top movies of the first decade of the 21st century. Extensive retrospect programs of von Bagh’s films have been screened at for example in Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Tromsø.
Information
| Original name |
Muisteja - Pieni elokuva 1950-luvun Oulusta |
| Original language |
Finnish |
| Subtitles |
Swedish, English |
| Genre |
Documentary |
| Production year |
2013 |
| Production country |
Finland |
| Running time |
69 min |
| Trailer |
http://muisteja.illume.fi/ |
Crew
| Direction |
Peter von Bagh (also scriptwriter) |
| Script |
Peter von Bagh |
| Cinematography |
Arto Kaivanto |
| Sound design |
Martti Turunen |
| Editing |
Petteri Evilampi |
| Translation |
Tiina Kinnunen, Maria Wiren-Malo |
| Archivejournalist & Assistant director |
Anna Korhonen |
| Producer |
Joukko Aaltonen |
| Assistant |
Tapio Piirainen |
| Production assistant |
Anna Recasens Gómez de Segura, Claudia Fleege |
| Production secretary |
Maarit Mononen |
| Production manager |
Marianne Mäkelä, Venla Hellstedt |
Screenings and awards
Festivals
- 01.01.2015 BIMI Essay Film Festival
- 01.01.2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 01.01.2014 Tampere International Short Film Festival 2014, Finland
- 01.01.2014 Blue Sea Film Festival
- 01.01.2014 Doclisboa Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival
- 01.01.2014 Nordische Filmtage Lubeck
- 01.01.2014 Florence International Film Festival
- 01.01.2013 Telluride Film Festival, USA
- 01.01.2013 Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy
- 01.01.2013 DOK Leipzig, International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Germany
- 01.01.2013 Screening at National Audiovisual Archive Helsinki, Finland
- 01.01.2013 Screening at the Filmoteca Española, Madrid, Spain
- 01.01.2013 Midnight sun film festival
- 01.01.2013 II Cinema Ritrovato
- 01.01.2013 International Festival of Documentary Films and Television Programmes "The Northern Character"
- 30.11.-0001 Stranger than Fiction ? Documentary Film Festival, Cologne, Germany
Production
