Pirjo Honkasalo

Birthday: 1947-02-22
Birthplace: Helsinki, Finland
Gender: Female

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.

Credits

Year Title
2025-04-17 Orenda
2013-11-01 Concrete Night
2010-11-12 ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
2004-10-08 The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
1998-10-30 Fire-Eater
1997-03-07 Atman
1996-01-12 The Cinderella of Tallinn
1993-03-12 Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
1991-08-30 Mysterion
1985-08-16 Da Capo
1983-09-18 250 grammaa
1982-12-03 Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki
1980-10-17 Flame Top
1979-06-03 Two Forces
1978-01-01 The Sign of Danger
1976-03-05 Ikäluokka
1968-01-01 The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
1967-01-01 Before I die