The Cuckoo
by Aleksandr Rogozhkin
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Actor: Aleksei Kashnikov, Aleksei Panzheyev, Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Viktor Bychkov, Ville HaapasaloDirector: Aleksandr Rogozhkin
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Russian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Finnish (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-02
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Cuckoo
Movie Review: This is a one-of-a-kind. Thank God for foreign films
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are at all like I am and find that many Western films are simply not doing it for you, might I suggest a Russian film subtitled in three different languages?????
It is a good thing (not Martha Stewart-like!) to have Amazon friends with which to watch, learn, observe and share. I watched this film "The Cuckoo" (KUKUSHKA) by famed director Alexander Rogozskin with one friend who said to me "You really need to see this film. I can't think of anything like it that I have ever seen!" WHY NOT! So we did, and he was right!
I speak only for myself when I say that this film has to be one of the most pleasantly odd (if that would be the best word to use) movies that I have ever seen. This film tells three very separate stories, in three different languages and cultural understandings, with three unique characters who, because of World War 2 are all thrown together in a place and time and must communicate. Shot on location in the upper regions of Asia, the story of a Finnish sniper, a disgraced Russian Captain and a native Lapp woman comes vividly, comically and tragically to life as Rogozhkin spins a tale of how humanity rises above war and death, how compassion transcends language, and how basically alike we all are as human beings. These three "misfits" all desire love, sex, touch, beauty, peace and tranquility. This is what each of them had before the War "enlisted" them involuntarily away from what they once knew. War has made them resourceful in ways they probably could have never learned otherwise, but the War has become tiresome and they long, no yearn for sweet humanity once again. What is fascinating about this film (yes you must be prepared to read subtitles!) is that each character speaks a different tongue, and you must remember that what you are reading is the character's true thoughts and not what the other character is understanding! Once you get that point, the rest is cake! This film was a challenge that I was up to, and I am glad that I accepted it. When Western films are not filling the void that I so feel, I find myself turning to the East and longing for a way to view life that is not American. This is an incredible humanitarian film that is beautifully and ingeniously rendered. In the "special featurette", director Rogozhkin and members of his team make it very clear that this film could actually border "on Boredom" because of the solitary way in which the tale needed to be shot and told. I never was bored. I was transfixed and grateful that once again I had experienced something that I otherwise might have overlooked.
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