The Cuckoo(Movie, 2002)

Name: The Cuckoo
Genre: Drama, History, Romance / Love, Comedy
Released: 2002
Duration: T01:40:00
Rating: 3.5

Original title: "Кукушка" (Russian/RU)

PG-13

| 1h 40min | Genres: Drama, History, Romance / Love, Comedy

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 37 votes)

The Cuckoo (Russian: Кукушка, translit. Kukuška) is a 2002 Russian war comedy drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin, who passed away autumn of 2021. The Cuckoo takes place during World War II, and the action is seen from the opposing perspectives of a Soviet soldier and a Finnish soldier stranded together at a Sami woman's farmhouse. It received generally positive reviews from critics. ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Cuckoo

Silver George for Best Director State Prize of the Russian Federation

About The Cuckoo

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.

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Trailer for The Cuckoo + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Кукушка - Trailer(Trailer, 0:28)

Additional Information

Production countries: Finland, Russia

Shot in: Kandalaksha

Plays in: Finland

Made by: CTB Film Company

Original language: Russian (RU)

Spoken languages: German (DE), Finnish (FI), Russian (RU)

Translated into 17 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Esperanto (EO), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Lithuanian (LT), Malayalam (ML), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 01/01/2002

Cast: Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov

Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Producer: Sergey Selyanov

Screenwriter: Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Director of Photography: Andrey Zhegalov

Composer: Dmitry Pavlov

Production Designer: Vladimir Svetozarov

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"O Cuco"

"Kukushka"

Keywords: friendship, hostility, pacifism, language barrier, wound, patriotism, peace, lapland, finnish, unsociability, finland, understanding, love triangle, siberia, twins

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