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Pirjo Honkasalo

Pirjo Honkasalo

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Movies Made By Pirjo Honkasalo (29)

Orenda (2025)

Orenda means an invisible force, a life spirit that inhabits everything living and lifeless: people, wind, birds, rabbits, stone. The one who serves Orenda and sings to it may receive its power. Exploring the themes of guilt and grace, the destinies of two ...

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Donner - Private (2021)

Jörn Donner's entire production can be considered as a self-portrait, a life-spanning performance. Whilst others have painted one image or another of Donner, John Webster's interpretation differs in that it pulls most of its material from Donner's last-in ...

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Concrete Night (2013)

A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother. ...

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ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest (2010)

A biographical documentary following the life of a young Japanese priest and bar-owner. ...

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The Interrogation (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. ...

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Helsinki, Forever (2008)

Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws a portrait of Helsinki and also acts as an essay on Finnish culture in a wider sense. It shows Helsinki as ...

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The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (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. ...

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Fire-Eater (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. Their life under the protection o ...

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Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work (1998)

TV Documentary about Ingmar Bergman from 1998. ...

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Atman (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. When his mother dies, a devout Hindu man named Jamana Lal begins a 3,000-mile journey in her honor. The destination is t ...

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The Cinderella of Tallinn (1996)

Documentary about Estonia's richest woman. ...

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Christmas in the Distance (1994)

The director documents the events leading to a reunion with her estranged father. ...

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Tanjuska and the 7 Devils (1993)

A documentary about Tanjuska who is a 12-year-old White-Russian schoolgirl, with a face like an icon. Two years ago she stopped eating, then talking and finally she stopped growing. The village priest in Estonia has explained to the family that seven devil ...

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Mysterion (1991)

A documentary about a convent of Russian Orthodox nuns in Estonia who have dedicated their lives to serving God. ...

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Da Capo (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 happenin ...

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250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament (1983)

Max Sjöman, Architect: "This is the story of my daughter. Her life was short. Short is not purposeless. I brick her picture into the cornerstone of an atomic power station. It is my testament to the future generations. They'll see from that photograph wha ...

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Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki (1982)

Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki, shot by Pirjo Honkasalo and Eero Salmenhaara, is a documentary on the capital of Finland. ...

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Flame Top (1980)

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila's early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult ...

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Two Forces (1979)

Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War. ...

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The Sign of Danger (1978)

Guerrilla style documentary about Finnish Neo-Nazi and occult wacko Pekka Siitoin. ...

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The Earth Is a Sinful Song (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. ...

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Hangover (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. ...

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Hellyys (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. Throughout the day, the couple argues and reminisces about their previous relationships, but by evening they ...

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Marja pieni! (1972)

A story about Marja Maronen, a 30-year-old office worker who is self-centered and pursues love and wealth. After her father's death, Marja is plunged into a crisis that shakes her entire life, the consequences of which are particularly reflected in her rel ...

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Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta (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. Only Kyllikki, the daughter of a wealthy family, is able to resist his advances and incites him t ...

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Pilvilinna (1970)

Teenager Erik returns from Paris to Finland in a rowboat and is accosted by a gang of youths in the countryside. He walks to Helsinki, returns to his parents' home and his old high school filled with angry radical teens who, typically for the era, consider ...

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Portraits of Women (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. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notori ...

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The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth (1968)

An experimental film about a day at the barber shop. ...

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Before I die (1967)

"Once upon a time I walked in thought. And I felt the pain of burning. When all alone. ...

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Movies Starring Pirjo Honkasalo (5)

The Dinosaur (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 ...

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Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (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. ...

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Two Forces (1979)

Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War. ...

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Uuno Turhapuro (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. In this, his first feature film appearance, Uuno embarrasses his wife in public, tricks his best fr ...

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Portraits of Women (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. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notori ...

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