The Cuckoo (2002)

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.

Genres: Drama, Romance, Comedy

What to watch after The Cuckoo

• War (2002)
• Brother (1997)
• Arrhythmia (2017)
• The Steamroller and the Violin (1961) — Same subject: friendship
• Peculiarities of the National Hunt (1995) — Aleksandr Rogozhkin directed both
• Andrei Rublev (1966) — Same feel: philosophical, reflective