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- Birth nameKari Peter Conrad von Bagh
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Peter von Bagh was born on August 29, 1943 in Helsinki, Finland. He was a director and writer, known for The Count (1971), The Man Without a Past (2002) and 1939 (1993). He died on September 17, 2014 in Finland.
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004
- Festival director of Midnight Sun Film Festival since the beginning 1986.
- Professor of film history at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki since 2000.
- The Midnight Sun Film Festival was founded in 1986 on the initiative of Anssi Mänttäri. In addition to Mänttäri, the Festival policy and guidelines were created by Kaurismäki brothers, Mika and Aki Kaurismäki and Peter von Bagh.
- Up until his death Peter von Bagh worked as the editor-in-chief of Filmihullu, the magazine he founded in 1968.
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