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.
Satu Mäkinen
as Virgin Mary
Elise Laaksonen
as Archangel Gabriel
Taru Ollila
as Saint
Elina Hurme
as Servant
Anastasia Ilvonen
as Servant
Kati Outinen
as Director
