The Cuckoo (2002)

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Country: Russia
Genres: Comedy, Drama, War
Release: 2002-09-12
Director: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Writers: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Language: Saami | Finnish | Russian | German
Stars: Anni-Kristiina Juuso , Ville Haapasalo , Viktor Bychkov , Mikhail Korobochkin , Aleksey Kashnikov , Denis Aksyonov , Aleksei Panzheyev , Aleksandr Kuykka , Vladimir Matveev , Aleksandr Zubkin
Runtime: 99 min
Awards: 24 wins & 11 nominations
AKA: The Cuckoo (Canada) , Gegutė (Lithuania) , Käki (Finland) , Ο κούκος (Greece) , Gjøken (Norway) , The Cuckoo (Sweden) , Göken (Finland) , Kukulind (Estonia) , Kukuska (Czech Republic) , Kukushka - Der Kuckuck (Germany) , Kukacka (Czech Republic) , Kokoška (Serbia) , Kiskakukk (Hungary) , Kukułka (Poland) , Кукушка (Russian Federation) , Kukushka , ククーシュカラップランドの妖精 (Japan) , The Cuckoo , Le coucou (France, French Republic)
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.
IMDB:tt0308476