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Birthday: Feb 22, 1947
Place of Birth: Helsinki, Finland

Pirjo Honkasalo

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
Portraits of Women Film Crew Member (uncredited) 1970
Two Forces Self 1979
Uuno Turhapuro Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited) 1973
The Dinosaur Self 2021
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women Self 2014
Series Cast Year
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