Helsinki, Forever
City Symphony
Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as captured by leading Finnish feature film and documentary makers over a period of one hundred years.
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Peter von Bagh
Narrator (voice)
Sulevi Peltola
Narrator (voice)
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