Pirjo Honkasalo
Born: 1947-02-22 in Helsinki, Finland
Known For: 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.
Filmography
2025
- Orenda ... (Director)
2021
- The Dinosaur as Self
- Donner - Private ... (Writer)
2014
2013
- Concrete Night ... (Screenplay)
2010
- ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest ... (Director)
2009
- The Interrogation ... (Director of Photography)
2008
- Helsinki, Forever ... (Thanks)
2004
- The 3 Rooms of Melancholia ... (Writer)
1998
- Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work ... (Director of Photography)
- Fire-Eater ... (Director)
1997
- Atman ... (Director)
1996
- The Cinderella of Tallinn ... (Writer)
1994
- Christmas in the Distance ... (Thanks)
1993
- Tanjuska and the 7 Devils ... (Director)
1991
- Mysterion ... (Still Photographer)
1985
- Da Capo ... (Director)
1983
- 250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament ... (Editor)
1982
- Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki ... (Director of Photography)
1980
- Flame Top ... (Director)
1979
- Two Forces as Self
1978
- The Sign of Danger ... (Director)
1976
- Ikäluokka ... (Director)
1973
- Hangover ... (Director of Photography)
- The Earth Is a Sinful Song ... (Screenplay)
- Uuno Turhapuro as Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited)
1972
- Marja pieni! ... (Director of Photography)
- Hellyys ... (Camera Operator)
1971
- Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta ... (Still Photographer)
1970
- Portraits of Women as Film Crew Member (uncredited)
- Pilvilinna ... (Director of Photography)
1968
- The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth ... (Director)
1967
- Before I die ... (Director)