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Retrospective 2017
A Day at the Grave of Karl Marx Peter von Bagh

A century after his death, people from 20 different countries visit the grave of the philosopher Karl Marx.

A Day at the Grave of Karl Marx

Documentary Film
Finland
1984
30 minutes
Subtitles: 
German

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Producer
Peter von Bagh
Director
Peter von Bagh
Music
Tapani Tamminen
Cinematographer
Tony Chapman
Editor
Elina Katainen
Sound
Chris Barton
A century after his death, people from 20 different countries visit the grave of the philosopher Karl Marx (1818–1883) in Highgate Cemetery. Thoughts and discussions about him as well as dialogues with him.

Ralph Eue
Retrospective 2013
Memory Peter von Bagh

The Civil War is something like a blind spot in the history of Finland. The country had hardly become independent when it was torn by a violent civil war. The birth of the republic and ...

Memory

Documentary Film
Finland
1987
118 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Director
Peter von Bagh
The Civil War is something like a blind spot in the history of Finland. The country had hardly become independent when it was torn by a violent civil war. The birth of the republic and the circumstances surrounding it quickly became a tacit taboo. There are practically no moving images of the events themselves. Even feature films rarely tackle the subject. “Memory” lets some of the few surviving eye-witnesses of those years talk. A work of words, many of which reveal how long they have waited to be spoken and recorded for posteriority.

Olaf Möller
Retrospective 2018
Prague 21.8.1968 Reijo Nikkilä

A photo film, thirty years after the events. The former photographer, now a filmmaker, spent the summer of 1968 as an academic guest in Prague.

Prague 21.8.1968

Documentary Film
Finland
1968
25 minutes
Subtitles: 
English

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Producer
Yleisradio (YLE)
Director
Reijo Nikkilä
Cinematographer
Reijo Nikkilä
Editor
Vesa Lehko, Marko Ahokas
Script
Reijo Nikkilä
Sound
Reijo Nikkilä
A photo film, thirty years after the events. The former photographer, now a filmmaker, spent the summer of 1968 as an academic guest in Prague.

Ralph Eue