Sodankylä Forever

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Peter von Bagh

Self

Age : 71 | Popularity : 3%

Robert Parrish

Self

Age : 79 | Popularity : 3%

Roy Ward Baker

Self

Age : 93 | Popularity : 4%

Víctor Erice

Self

Age : 83 | Popularity : 3%

Francis Ford Coppola

Self

Age : 85 | Popularity : 44%

Samuel Fuller

Self

Age : 85 | Popularity : 6%

Sergio Sollima

Self

Age : 94 | Popularity : 3%

Miloš Forman

Self

Age : 86 | Popularity : 13%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Peter von Bagh
Department	Role	Name

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