CERVINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
6th edition
Breuil-Cervinia/Valtournenche, July 23rd-27th, 2003

THE COMPETITION

FULL-LENGTH FEATURES COMPETITION

KUKUSHKA (The cuckoo)
RUSSIA, 2002, 100’, col., 35mm
Director Alexander Rogozhkin
Screenplay Alexander Rogozhkin
Cinematography Andrej Zhegalov
Editing Yulia Rumyantseva
Cast Anni-Christina Juuso (Anny); Ville Haapasalo (Ville); Viktor Bychkov (Kartuzov); Aleksei Kashnikov; Mikhail Korobochkin
Production Sergej Selyanov - CTB Film Company
Distribution Revolver

In September 1944, Finland is about to abandon its treaty with Germany and back out of the war against the Sovietic Union. Willi, a Finnish soldier, and Ivan, a sovietic official, are sentenced to death by their respective Armies. They both take shelter in a Lapp farm, hosted by a Saami woman, Anni. They speak different languages but they manage to understand each other thorugh body language. The woman does not consider the two men as enemies, but simply as two men…

DIRECTOR
Alexander Rogozhkin was born in Leningrad in 1949. He studied history at the University of Leningrad. After collaborating with Lenfilm (Leningrad cinema production studios), he decided to study cinematography at the VGIK in Moscow. Among his films we quote Checkpoint and Cockoo, awarded at many Film Festival (Moscow and Berlin).

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