Pirjo Honkasalo
Directing
Biography
Pirjo Honkasalo is a highly established director, cinematographer and scriptwriter. She directed several feature films in the 1970s and 80s together with Pekka Lehto, including Flame Top which was in Cannes Competition in 1980. In the 1990s, she continued alone and turned to feature documentaries, directing the prize winning trilogy Mysterion, Tanjuska and the 7 Devils, and Atman. Since then, she has directed the stunningly beautiful The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004), and her return to fiction was Concrete Night in 2012.
As actor 6
On the crew 30
Helsinki, Forever
2008
Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work
1998
Portraits of Women
1970
The Earth Is a Sinful Song
1973
Donner - Private
2021
Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
1993
250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament
1983
Concrete Night
2013
Two Forces
1979
Before I die
1967
Hellyys
1972
Marja pieni!
1972
Atman
1997
Orenda
2025
Pilvilinna
1970
ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
2010
The Sign of Danger
1978
Mysterion
1991
Fire-Eater
1998
Ikäluokka
1976
Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta
1971
Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki
1982
Da Capo
1985
Christmas in the Distance
1994
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
2004
The Interrogation
2009
Hangover
1973
The Cinderella of Tallinn
1996
Flame Top
1980
The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
1968