Movie: The Annunciation

Top 6 Billed Cast

Satu Mäkinen
Satu Mäkinen

Virgin Mary

Elise Laaksonen
Elise Laaksonen

Archangel Gabriel

Taru Ollila
Taru Ollila

Saint

Elina Hurme
Elina Hurme

Servant

Anastasia Ilvonen
Anastasia Ilvonen

Servant

Kati Outinen
Kati Outinen

Director

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    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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    2011-11-06

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