Aleksandr ROGOZHKIN
Александр РОГОЖКИН
Aleksandr ROGOJKINE
Russia, 2002, 99mn 
Colour, fiction
The Cuckoo
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Кукушка

 

 Le Coucou

 Kukushka

 
Directed by : Aleksandr ROGOZHKIN (Александр РОГОЖКИН)
Writing credits : Aleksandr ROGOZHKIN (Александр РОГОЖКИН)
 
Cast
Viktor BYCHKOV (Виктор БЫЧКОВ) ...Ivan (Pcholty)
Ville HAAPASALO (Вилле ХААПАСАЛО) ...Veikko
Anni-Kristiina JUUSO (Анне-Кристина ЮУСО) ...Anni
 
Cinematography : Andrey ZHEGALOV (Андрей ЖЕГАЛОВ)
Production design : Vladimir SVETOZAROV (Владимир СВЕТОЗАРОВ)
Music : Dmitry PAVLOV (Дмитрий ПАВЛОВ)
Produced by : Sergey SELIANOV (Сергей СЕЛЬЯНОВ)
Production : CTB
Release date in Russia : 12/09/2002
 

Awards :
First prize Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2003
Best Screenplay Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2003
Best actor Viktor BYCHKOV , Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2003
Best actress Anni-Kristiina JUUSO , Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2003
Best directing Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2003
Best Screenplay Aleksandr ROGOZHKIN , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2003
Best actor Viktor BYCHKOV , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2003
Best feature film Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2003
Best film Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best Screenplay Aleksandr ROGOZHKIN , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best actress Anni-Kristiina JUUSO , Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best actress Anni-Kristiina JUUSO , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best directing "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best feature film "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best Set Decoration Vladimir SVETOZAROV , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best directing Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2002
FIPRESCI Prize Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2002

DVD with subtitles
Editor : Xenix Film

Plot synopsis
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.
Source : www.ctb.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Рогожкин и Балабанов [Rogojkine et Balabanov], Nikita KARTSEV, kinoart.ru, 2022
Comment sont regardés les films sur la Grande Guerre patriotique dans la Russie actuelle ?, Myriam DÉSERT, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 2011
Aleksandr Rogozhkin: Cuckoo (Kukushka) (2002), Daniel WILD, kinokultura, 2004
"Надо понять, как заманить американцев" Во Франции приглядываются к Дому дураков и Кукушке, Joël CHAPRON, kommersant.ru, 2002
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Festival of new Russian cinema "Gorky fest", Nizhniy Novgorod (Russia), 2024
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2023
- Festival of Central and Eastern Film , Wiesbaden (Germany), 2022
- International Film Festival of the Commonwealth Countries "Moscow Premiere", Moscow (Russia), 2021
- Festival Rivages-Russie-Evénements, Nantes (France), 2016
- Russian Film Festival For Another Russia, Paris (France), 2016
- Russian film symposium. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (USA), 2015
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2010
- Mixmoviefestival, Internet (International), 2010
- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2010
- Rabat International Film Festival, Rabat (Morocco), 2009
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2008
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2004
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2004
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2003
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2003
- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2002
- Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2002
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2002