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 feature film Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 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 film Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best Screenplay Aleksandr ROGOZHKIN , Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best actress Anni-Kristiina JUUSO , Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best feature film "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best directing "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best Set Decoration Vladimir SVETOZAROV , "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2002
Best actress Anni-Kristiina JUUSO , "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 :
- 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 in Paris, 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
- Annual award of the Guild of Historians of Cinema and Film Critics, Moscow (Russia), 2002
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2002