Movie Details
Cast & Crew
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Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Director
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Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Writer
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Ilppo Pohjola
Producer
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Sattva-Hanna Toiviainen
Production Design
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Peter Nordström
Sound Editor
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Heikki Kotsalo
Editor
The Annunciation
Audience Score
36 minDocumentary
Plot
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.