TV series
Sodankylä Forever
2010 · 1 season
Like sitting in a warm, crowded room listening to great storytellers reminisce; unhurried, funny, and quietly moving.
- Created by
- Peter von Bagh
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Peter von Bagh, Robert Parrish, Roy Ward Baker
- Overview
- The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.
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- Created by
- Peter von Bagh
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Peter von Bagh, Robert Parrish, Roy Ward Baker
