Pirjo Honkasalo
February 22, 1947 (77 years old) in 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.
Known For
Credits
- 2021 · The Dinosaur as Self
- 2014 · Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women as Self
- 1979 · Two Forces as Self
- 1973 · Uuno Turhapuro as Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited)
- 1970 · Portraits of Women as Film Crew Member (uncredited)