Person
Pirjo Honkasalo
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Feb 22, 1947
- From
- Helsinki, Finland
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.
Images
Credits
Uuno Turhapuro
Portraits of Women
The Dinosaur
Two Forces
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Molle: A Director's Portrait of Academian Rauni Mollberg
The Earth Is a Sinful Song
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
Concrete Night
ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
Hangover
Flame Top
Fire-Eater
The Sign of Danger
Helsinki, Forever
Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
Da Capo
Before I die