The Cuckoo

IMDb link: 0308476
IMDb rating: 7.7 (8,242 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, War
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Cast: Ville Haapasalo, Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Viktor Bychkov, Mikhail Korobochkin and others

Release date: 12 Sep 2002
Release year: 2002
Runtime: 99 minutes
Country: Russia
Keywords: russia, lapland finland, lapland russia, woman, chained, captain, soldier, lapp, finland, snow

Plot:

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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