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The Annunciation

60% | Nov 06, 2011 | Documentary

This charming and casually reverent work is an authorized single-screen version of an installation by celebrated video artist Ahtila. Amid stunning snow-draped forests, a women’s theatrical group rehearses a stage version of the Annunciation (the director is played by Aki Kaurismäki’s signature actress Kati Outinen), in the process discovering the parallel worlds of humans and animals, and the proximity of the ordinary to the miraculous.

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Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Director
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Writer

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Satu Mäkinen
Virgin Mary
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Elise Laaksonen
Archangel Gabriel
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Elina Hurme
Servant

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