Movies: Pirjo Honkasalo
- 2013
Concrete Night (2013)
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A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother....
- 1973
The Earth Is a Sinful Song (1973)
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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. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outra...
- 1985
Da Capo (1985)
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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 ha...
- 1973
Uuno Turhapuro (1973)
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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 ti...
- 1970
Portraits of Women (1970)
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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, ...
- 1972
Marja pieni! (1972)
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- 2010
ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest (2010)
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A biographical documentary following the life of a young Japanese priest and bar-owner....
- 1973
Hangover (1973)
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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....
- 1998
Fire-Eater (1998)
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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 protec...
- 2009
The Interrogation (2009)
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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....
- 1968
The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth (1968)
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- 2014
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014)
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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....
- 2021
The Dinosaur (2021)
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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 a...
- 1997
Atman (1997)
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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 destinatio...
- 1972
Hellyys (1972)
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- 1980
Flame Top (1980)
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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...
- 1998
Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work (1998)
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TV Documentary about Ingmar Bergman from 1998....
- 1970
Pilvilinna (1970)
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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, co...
- 2004
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004)
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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....
- 1991
Mysterion (1991)
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A documentary about a convent of Russian Orthodox nuns in Estonia who have dedicated their lives to serving God....