The Annunciation

Documentary · 2011

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.

Starring

Satu Mäkinen, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Elise Laaksonen, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Ilppo Pohjola, Taru Ollila, Sattva-Hanna Toiviainen, Elina Hurme, Peter Nordström, Anastasia Ilvonen, Sattva-Hanna Toiviainen

Director

Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Producer

Ilppo Pohjola