The Annunciation (2011)
Overview
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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| Original Language | fi |
| Popularity | 0.459 |
Directed By
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Crew
Heikki Kotsalo
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Ilppo Pohjola
Sattva-Hanna Toiviainen
Peter Nordström
TOP CAST
Satu Mäkinen
Virgin Mary
Elise Laaksonen
Archangel Gabriel
Taru Ollila
Saint
Elina Hurme
Servant
Anastasia Ilvonen
Servant
Kati Outinen
Director
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