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The Annunciation

Nov 6, 2011

0h 36m

★ 6.0

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Kristallisilmä Oy

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Cast

Virgin Mary

Satu Mäkinen

Archangel Gabriel

Elise Laaksonen

Saint

Taru Ollila

Servant

Elina Hurme

Servant

Anastasia Ilvonen

Director

Kati Outinen

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