Pirjo Honkasalo Trailers
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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.
Most Popular Pirjo Honkasalo Trailers
Total trailers found: 33
03 December 1982
Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki, shot by Pirjo Honkasalo and Eero Salmenhaara, is a documentary on the capital of Finland.
29 January 2021
Jörn Donner’s entire production can be considered as a self-portrait, a life-spanning performance.
06 February 1970
Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews.
16 August 1985
Interwoven with scenes that are meant to grab attention by their stunning composition, this biographical look at Finland's violinist Arto Arsi is not so much a narration of his childhood and early years, as an attempt to artistically show what was happening inside his psyche during that time.
17 April 2025
Orenda means an invisible force, a life spirit that inhabits everything living and lifeless: people, wind, birds, rabbits, stone.
17 October 1980
This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868.
12 June 1973
Lasse is a car salesman who has vowed to never get married. He wakes up hung over one morning with a wedding ring on his finger and a nude woman in his bed.
28 January 1972
A story about Marja Maronen, a 30-year-old office worker who is self-centered and pursues love and wealth.
18 September 1983
Max Sjöman, Architect: "This is the story of my daughter. Her life was short. Short is not purposeless.
01 January 1967
"Once upon a time I walked in thought. And I felt the pain of burning. When all alone."
29 October 1971
Olavi Koskela, a ladies' man, joins the loggers. As a log driver, Olavi travels from place to place, seducing one girl after another and then abandoning them.
30 October 1998
The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier.
01 November 2013
A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother.
24 August 1973
Uuno Turhapuro is a lazy man who abhors manual labor, but has the ability to talk himself out of any sticky situation, usually with his long-suffering wife.
15 August 2008
Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh.
02 November 1973
An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s.
10 March 2021
Acclaimed Finnish director Rauni Mollberg made several scandalous yet widely appreciated films. Former co-worker Veikko Aaltonen’s eye-opening documentary The Dinosaur looks at the relentless, often disturbing directing techniques behind Mollberg’s art and success.
25 September 2009
Finnish Kerttu Nuorteva is spying for the Russians in Helsinki during World War II. She is arrested and interrogated in the hope that she will uncover the Soviet Union espionage tactics.
26 November 1970
Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside.
05 March 1976
Onni is a shoemaker, aged 70. Toivo is a blacksmith, aged 75. The film tells the story of their generation, from childhood through various stages to the present day.
01 January 1968
An experimental film about a day at the barber shop.
10 August 2014
Using rare footage and exclusive interviews with filmmakers from all over the globe, "Reel Herstory" corrects the historic notion that women behind the scenes in motion pictures held peripheral careers compared with their male counterparts.
08 October 2004
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
12 March 1993
A documentary about Tanjuska who is a 12-year-old White-Russian schoolgirl, with a face like an icon.
12 January 1996
Documentary about Estonia's richest woman.
18 February 1972
Long-time cohabiting couple Petteri and Liisa wake up with a terrible hangover and realize to their horror that they got married the night before.
30 August 1991
A documentary about a convent of Russian Orthodox nuns in Estonia who have dedicated their lives to serving God.
12 November 2010
A biographical documentary following the life of a young Japanese priest and bar-owner.
03 June 1979
Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.
30 September 1994
The director documents the events leading to a reunion with her estranged father.
07 March 1997
The final film in The Trilogy of the Sacred and the Satanic, Atman is a spectacular epic across India, all documented on stunning 35mm.
01 January 1978
Guerrilla style documentary about Finnish Neo-Nazi and occult wacko Pekka Siitoin.
31 January 1998
TV Documentary about Ingmar Bergman from 1998.
