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  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 39 m

Summary Set in the remote wastelands of northern Russia in September, 1944, this is the story of a romantic triangle that develops between a local Lapp woman and the two soldiers from opposite sides of World War II, a deserter sniper from the Finnish army and a Soviet Army captain, to whom she gives refuge.

Directed By: Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Written By: Aleksandr Rogozhkin

  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 39 m
  • 2003
  • PG-13
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 39 m

The Cuckoo

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews
69
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 13 User Ratings
7.8
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Summary Set in the remote wastelands of northern Russia in September, 1944, this is the story of a romantic triangle that develops between a local Lapp woman and the two soldiers from opposite sides of World War II, a deserter sniper from the Finnish army and a Soviet Army captain, to whom she gives refuge.

Directed By: Aleksandr Rogozhkin

Written By: Aleksandr Rogozhkin

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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74% Positive
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22% Mixed
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4% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 27 Critic Reviews
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74% Positive
20 Reviews
22% Mixed
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4% Negative
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Gorgeous and optimistic.
By Edward Guthmann FULL REVIEW
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A wondrous, funny and moving little film.
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7.8
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8% Negative
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Horrux
Sep 22, 2011
Perfection! Incredibly great! One of my top 10 movies of all time. Presents us with a completely foreign culture, and two others at war with each other. They don't understand each other. Wait, but they do. After all, we are all human.
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seketh
Nov 15, 2010
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75
Simple and austere, The Cuckoo also draws from the mysticism of tales of gnomes and other creatures who inhabit remote Nordic lands. It is that blend of reality with allegory that delivers the film's beauty and charm.
By Marta Barber FULL REVIEW
75
A comedy of miscommunication that blends the humanism of Jean Renoir, the magic of Jean Cocteau and the absurdism of Eugene Ionesco.
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70
There are subtitles to reduce everything to simple English declarative sentences. This gives the viewer a decidedly unfair advantage over the characters: we can understand what they cannot and are invited to laugh at their mutual incomprehension.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
60
Well-intentioned but sugarcoated anti-war allegory.
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By the time you've worked through the allegorical implications, you may be wondering why you didn't just go see "Charlie's Angels."
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
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CaptainHowdy
Apr 28, 2019
I really enjoyed The Cuckoo more than I thought I would. The film is historic, funny, moving, and features three fantastic performances by the leads. I was fully engaged throughout the entire movie.
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hamidgoodarzi
Apr 24, 2023
The film "Coco" from the Russian cinema, made in 2002, is a charming anti-war comedy. The film, with all its ups and downs, takes the audience with it until the end. It is a film with few dialogues and few actors. A different love triangle is formed in the film where both men leave this female triangle alone. The film has three main characters, a Sami woman, a Finnish soldier, and a Russian commander, whose story is related to the end of World War II. All three characters do not understand each other's language, and their communication forms the essence of the film, and the film evokes this poem that empathy is better than speaking the same language
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Production Company CTB Film Company
Release Date Jul 11, 2003
Duration 1 h 39 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline She's Making Peace One Man at a Time.
Website http://ctb.ru/en/films/cuckoo/
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Awards

Nika Awards
• 4 Wins & 7 Nominations
Golden Eagle Awards, Russia
• 4 Wins & 7 Nominations
Russian Guild of Film Critics
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations

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