The Cuckoo
2002 · 100 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 8,092 VOTES · DIR. Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 538 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:54 The Cuckoo
00:11:11 Comrade lieutenant, you can see the state of the road!
00:16:03 Only your diary, but that's evidence.
00:36:10 I'll have a look, my husband had some tooIs.
00:38:17 Shoot, you scum. My own people will put me up against a wall, anyway.
00:40:40 It's my fourth year without a man.
00:42:59 Understand? My war is over.
00:44:49 I hope people will look back in horror at what they did at war.
00:47:37 Thanks, fascist.
00:50:29 Let me help!
00:52:53 Now even a hunchback looks like a princess to me.
00:55:58 He was driving Yesenin one day from the train station to the hotel.
00:58:15 You understand?
01:00:28 Damn!
01:06:14 And I'm tired.
01:08:39 Bring the dogs and the deer! Let them all see. Madness!
01:11:21 Only three of them. One is injured and there is a woman, must be the nurse.
01:12:56 Looks like you understood nothing.
01:17:33 Here, read it. Probably asking you to give yourself up.
01:19:56 ...that I don't fight anymore. I surrendered a long time ago.
01:26:33 I'll stop you on the road to the land of the dead.
01:31:34 Spirit, return to the body!
01:35:07 My name's Ivan.
01:36:58 ...and Veikko.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed538
Dialogue density5.4 lines / min
First line00:00:54
Final line01:36:58
Production Record
DirectorAleksandr Rogozhkin
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes8,092