The Cuckoo
“She's Making Peace One Man at a Time.”
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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Cast
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Anni-Kristiina Juuso
Anni
Also in
To Cook a Bear
The Kautokeino Rebellion
Ville Haapasalo
Veikko
Known for
Peculiarities of the National Hunt
Love and the City
Viktor Bychkov
Ivan or Psoltõ
Known for
Zhuki
Peculiarities of the National Fishing
Mikhail Korobochkin
episode
No other roles listed
Denis Aksenov
episode
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Santeri Kuikka
episode
Also in
Chaliapin
Major Grom: The Game
Aleksandr Zubkin
episode
No other roles listed
Sergei Antonov
episode
Also in
Карамболь
The Golden Calf
Svyatoslav Lezin
episode
No other roles listed
Vsevolod Lezin
episode
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Aleksandr Melnikov
episode
Sergey Sokolov
episode
Aleksandr Rogozhkin Director · Dmitri Pavlov Composer Andrei Zhegalov Cinematographer
United States release July 11, 2003 · Produced in Russia, Finland · Languages Finnish, German, Northern Sami, Russian
Production
CTB Film Company
Production
Sony Pictures Classics
Studio
Russia · Finland
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Кукушка
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Finnish · German · Northern Sami · Russian
Release dates
Russia · June 26, 2002
Premiere · Moscow International Film Festival
Russia · September 12, 2002
Theatrical
United States · July 11, 2003
Limited theatrical
United States
August 30, 2002 · Premiere · Telluride Film Festival
October 13, 2002 · Premiere · Chicago International Film Festival
November 9, 2002 · Premiere · AFI Fest
Australia
February 28, 2003 · Premiere · Adelaide International Film Festival
Austria
September 17, 2004 · Theatrical
Canada
September 7, 2002 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
Cyprus
December 2, 2002 · Premiere · Cinema Horizons Film Festival
Czechia
July 10, 2002 · Premiere · Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
October 9, 2003 · Theatrical
Denmark
April 1, 2003 · Premiere · NatFilm Festival
Estonia
October 18, 2002 · Theatrical
Finland
October 3, 2003 · Theatrical
Germany
July 14, 2005 · Theatrical
April 22, 2022 · Premiere · GoEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film
Greece
November 9, 2002 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Hungary
October 13, 2002 · Premiere · Titanic International Filmpresence Festival
April 17, 2003 · Theatrical
Ireland
October 18, 2003 · Premiere · Cork Film festival
Israel
February 6, 2003 · Theatrical
Italy
June 27, 2003 · Theatrical
Japan
March 25, 2006 · Theatrical
Kazakhstan
October 25, 2002 · Limited theatrical
Poland
October 4, 2002 · Premiere · Warsaw Film Festival
Russia
August 16, 2007 · Physical · DVD
Serbia
March 6, 2003 · Premiere · Belgrade Film Festival
Slovakia
May 13, 2004 · Theatrical
Sweden
January 26, 2003 · Premiere · Göteborg Film Festival
Switzerland
November 13, 2003 · Theatrical
Taiwan
January 30, 2004 · Limited theatrical
United Kingdom
November 28, 2003 · Theatrical
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