The Cuckoo

(sony classics) Release Date: July 11, 2003 Director: Alexander Rogozhkin Cast: Anni-Christina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov, Mikhail Korobochkin Plot: Set in the remote wastelands of northern Russia in September, 1944 during World War II, this is the story of a romantic triangle that develops between a local Lapp woman and the two soldiers from opposite sides of the war, a deserter sniper from the Finnish army and a Soviet Army captain, that she gives refuge to.