Pirjo Honkasalo

Pirjo Honkasalo

Born: February 22, 1947
in Helsinki, Finland
Finnish filmmaker.

Movies for Pirjo Honkasalo...

The Dinosaur
Title: The Dinosaur
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Title: Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Character: Self
Released: August 10, 2014
Type: Movie
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
Title: Two Forces
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Docudrama about the Soviet occupation of a Finnish village in the fall before the Winter War.
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Uuno Turhapuro
Title: Uuno Turhapuro
Character: Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited)
Released: August 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
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Portraits of Women
Title: Portraits of Women
Character: Film Crew Member (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1970
Type: Movie
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, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.