Pirjo Honkasalo
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 22, 1947
- Place of birth
- Helsinki, Finland
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.
Movies with Pirjo Honkasalo
- Uuno Turhapuro 1973 · ★ 5.5
- Portraits of Women 1970 · ★ 5.0
- The Dinosaur 2021 · ★ 5.8
- Two Forces 1979 · ★ 6.8
- Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women 2014 · ★ 6.5
- Molle: A Director's Portrait of Academian Rauni Mollberg 1991 · ★ 6.0
Movies directed by Pirjo Honkasalo
- Concrete Night 2013 · ★ 5.9
- The 3 Rooms of Melancholia 2004 · ★ 7.6
- Fire-Eater 1998 · ★ 5.4
- Orenda 2025 · ★ 5.5
- Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki 1982 · ★ 7.4
- Flame Top 1980 · ★ 5.4
- Two Forces 1979 · ★ 6.8
- The Sign of Danger 1978 · ★ 8.0
- Tanjuska and the 7 Devils 1993 · ★ 6.5
- Da Capo 1985 · ★ 6.0
- Mysterion 1991 · ★ 7.5
- Atman 1997 · ★ 7.0
- ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest 2010 · ★ 6.0
- The Cinderella of Tallinn 1996 · ★ 8.0
- 250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament 1983 · ★ 10.0
- Ikäluokka 1976 · ★ 9.0
- Before I die 1967
- The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth 1968