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The Cuckoo

The Cuckoo (2002)

2002-09-12 · 100 min · Rating 7.10/10 (116 votes)

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.

Keywords

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