Actor

Pirjo Honkasalo

Directing

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Acting credits

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Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.4

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Movies: 31Series: 0Crew credits: 28

TMDB ID: 1091507

IMDb ID: nm0393345

Known for: Directing

Born: February 22, 1947

Age: 78

Place of birth: Helsinki, Finland

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1968 - 2025

Years active: 58

Average TMDB rating: 6.2

Wikidata: Q2943813

Other jobs

Director (10)Director of Photography (6)Still Photographer (3)Editor (2)Screenplay (2)Thanks (2)Writer (2)Camera Operator (1)

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Biography

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.

Movies

Movie credits linked with Pirjo Honkasalo.