Pirjo Honkasalo
View on IMDb ↗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
Two Forces
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Molle: A Director's Portrait of Academian Rauni Mollberg
The Dinosaur
Uuno Turhapuro
Portraits of WomenFilmography (6)
Crew (28)
- 2025OrendaDirector
- 2021Donner - PrivateWriter
- 2013Concrete NightScreenplay
- 2010ITO – A Diary of an Urban PriestDirector of Photography
- 2009The InterrogationDirector of Photography
- 2008Helsinki, ForeverThanks
- 2004The 3 Rooms of MelancholiaDirector of Photography
- 1998Ingmar Bergman on Life and WorkDirector of Photography
- 1998Fire-EaterDirector
- 1997AtmanCinematography
- 1996The Cinderella of TallinnWriter
- 1994Christmas in the DistanceThanks
- 1993Tanjuska and the 7 DevilsDirector of Photography
- 1991MysterionDirector of Photography
- 1985Da CapoScreenplay
- 1983250 Grammes – A Radioactive TestamentWriter
- 1982Nine Ways to Approach HelsinkiEditor
- 1980Flame TopScreenplay
- 1978The Sign of DangerWriter
- 1976IkäluokkaEditor
- 1973The Earth Is a Sinful SongSound Editor
- 1973HangoverDirector of Photography
- 1972Marja pieni!Director of Photography
- 1972HellyysCamera Operator
- 1971Laulu tulipunaisesta kukastaStill Photographer
- 1970PilvilinnaDirector of Photography
- 1968The Whole Truth and Nothing but the TruthWriter
- 1967Before I dieDirector