The Annunciation (2011)

Director: Eija-Liisa Ahtila

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.

Cast

Satu Mäkinen

Virgin Mary

Elise Laaksonen

Archangel Gabriel

Taru Ollila

Saint

Elina Hurme

Servant

Anastasia Ilvonen

Servant

Kati Outinen

Director