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The Cuckoo

2002 · 100 min

A quiet, gently comic and tender slow burn where three lonely people who cannot speak to each other slowly become a strange kind of family.

Tagline
She's Making Peace One Man at a Time.
Overview
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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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • isolation
  • love
  • friendship
  • survival
Places
  • countryside
  • wilderness
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour6
Realism7
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, romance, comedy
Directed by
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Written by
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Starring
Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Mikhail Korobochkin, Denis Aksenov, Santeri Kuikka, Aleksandr Zubkin, Sergei Antonov
Music
Dmitri Pavlov
Cinematography
Andrei Zhegalov
Runtime
100 min
Country
Russia
Languages
Finnish, German, Russian, Northern Sami

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