Pirjo Honkasalo

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 of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged … (fonte: imdb)… (mehr)

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 of their grandmother and the teachings of communism ends first with the death of Stalin, then with that of their grandmother. The girls are eight years old when they are put in an orphanage. Their mother shows up at the orphanage in the company of Ramon, a Spanish trapeze artist. They are on a talent search for a German circus. Ramon trains the reluctant Irene during circus tours in Central Europe. She becomes the trapeze star of the circus. The hard work soon exhausts Irene and she falls from height, as if on purpose. Helena has secretly learned the art of fire-eating. Now she is burdened with both her mother and her sister. The violent life, however, separates the three from each other. In the present-day Helsinki the middle-aged Helena has looked into her past, ceased to hate and now, for the first time in her life, voluntarily accepts responsibility for another human being.
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Melancholian 3 huonetta on Pirjo Honkasalon elokuva vuodelta 2004. Se liittyy Tšetšenian sotaan ja kertoo lasten ja nuorten elämästä sodan runtelemassa maailmassa, sekä näille lapsille orpokoteja järjesteneestä Gatajevin pariskunnasta. Elokuvan episodit, ”kolme huonetta”, sijoittuvat Kronstadtin kadettikouluun, Groznyin katulasten keskelle ja orpokotiin Ingušiassa.
Elokuva sai parhaan dokumentin ja musiikin Jussi-palkinnot ja oli ehdolla parhaasta leikkauksesta. Lisäksi se on saanut palkintoja useilla elokuvafestivaaleilla: Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Mar del Plata Film Festival, Prix Italia, Sundance-elokuvafestivaali, Tampere Film Festival, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Venetsian elokuvajuhlat ja Yerevan International Film Festival.… (mehr)