Pirjo Irene Honkasalo is a Finnish film director who has also worked as a cinematographer, film editor, producer, screenwriter and actress. In 1980 she co-directed Flame Top with Pekka Lehto, with whom she worked earlier and later as well. The film was chosen for the 1981 Cannes Film Festival.
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Concrete Night
The Earth Is a Sinful Song
Uuno Turhapuro
Fire-Eater
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
Portraits of Women
Flame Top
Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki
The Dinosaur
Orenda
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Two Forces
Donner - Private
Da Capo
Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
Mysterion
Atman
250 Grammes - A Radioactive Testament
ITO - A Diary of an Urban Priest
The Cinderella of Tallinn
Ikäluokka
The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth74 credits on file
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Directors born in the 1940s 1
About this person
Pirjo Irene Honkasalo is a Finnish film director who has also worked as a cinematographer, film editor, producer, screenwriter and actress. In 1980 she co-directed Flame Top with Pekka Lehto, with whom she worked earlier and later as well. The film was chosen for the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In the 1990s she focused on feature documentaries such as "The Trilogy of the Sacred and the Satanic". Honkasalo returned to fiction with Fire-Eater (1998) and Concrete Night (2013), both of which were written by Pirkko Saisio. Concrete Night won six Jussi Awards in 2014, among them the Jussi for the Best Direction and the Jussi for the Best Film. Its world premiere was at the Toronto International Film Festival in Masters series.
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