# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pekka-lehto
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:58:11.674Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pekka-lehto"
name: "Pekka Lehto"
slug: "pekka-lehto"
description: "Pekka Lehto is a Finnish film director. He has directed fifteen films since 1976. He co-directed Flame Top with Pirjo Honkasalo and the film was entered into the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. He also won the Jussi Award for Best Director for the film."
tagline: "Finnish screenwriter, film director and film producer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1948-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           35.7
  momentum:             12.85714285714285
  historical:           6.601188
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0499939/"
    handle:    "nm0499939"
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Lehto"
    title: "Pekka Lehto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87%D8%AA%D9%88"
    title: "پيكا ليهتو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Lehto"
    title: "Pekka Lehto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Lehto"
    title: "Pekka Lehto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Lehto"
    title: "Pekka Lehto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Lehto"
    title: "Pekka Lehto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekka_Lehto"
    title: "Pekka Lehto"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6377869"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1029069"
    title: "Pekka Lehto"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump