Kukushka
The Cuckoo
Made by a director-writer, Alexander Rogozhkin (Checkpoint), who is
clearly an old-fashioned humanist, The Cuckoo features an excellent trio of actors playing protagonists, thrown together by
war, who can‘t speak each other‘s language. Rogozhkin has a fine eye for both human behavior and natural vistas. Under his
eye, the landscape becomes his fourth principal character. As in a classic 1950s American Western by Anthony Mann or John
Ford, we see these characters and their onscreen fates as something tied to the land, their relationships enacted against,
and vivified by, the timeless expanse of mountain and sky stretching behind them. (Michael Wilmington)
European Panorama 2004
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Finland / Russia
2002
color
100 minutes
OV with German subtitles
Screenplay
Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Cinematography
Andrei Zhegalov
Editing Yuliya
Rumyantseva
Music Dmitri
Pavlov
With Anni-Christina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo,
Viktor Bychkov, Aleksei Kashnikov
Production
CTB Film Company 10, Kamennoostrovsky Ave. 197101 St. Petersburg Russland kino@ctb.ru