I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Fascinating film this, in many ways.Slow to start, as the conscientious objector is nailed to a rock as bait following the ending of WW2 hostilities in Scandanavia. The director takes is through a sometimes quite painfully slow process as or young soldier fights a battle with a nail and chain. The scene when the chain gets released is a relief.The scenery, the close-ups, the human facial reactions throughout carry this film well. I can't understand why some friends of mine say they cannot watch subtitled films - here we have no choice - though non verbal communication or body language is clearly universal, even in adversity.My favourite scene: when the young soldier suffers from the Russian guys bullet. He drifts away into unconsciousness and is bought back the Saami woman's traditional trance like spell - the scene cuts to a young boy in white (angel of death) leading our character away, only to be pulled back to the present at the very end.As someone interested in people and communications this film is a classic - ends beautifully and the camera-work throughout is wonderful.Watch it a few times, be sure to catch the humour!

'Kukushka' or 'The Cuckoo' is one of those movies that remind us so often that there is a lot of great cinema happening beyond the American or West-European circuit. Director Aleksandr Rogozhkin brings to screen a human story happening at the end of WW2. A Russian and a Finn soldier are being brought by fate together to the house and care of a young Lap woman. Each of them is far from the real soldier character - the Finn is a pacifist, the Russian is actually a prisoner brought to trial for writing some subversive poetry. Yet, the level of misunderstanding brought in each of us by the war machines they are part of is only accentuated by the lack of communication due to the barrier language. Each speaks only his own language, and none of them understands the other. The message of this simply filmed but yet rich movie is that human communication is beyond and above words.The treatment reminds not only the traditional Russian cinema relying so much on the contrapunct of dialogs and silence and acting, but also draws from the Far East cinema (Korean especially) in its treatment of the landscape. Acting is superb, but of all three main actors I will give a special mention to Anni-Kristiina Juuso, an amateur, who takes the role of the Lap woman to heights of ingenuity combined with feminine wisdom reminding and not falling below similar roles played by Audrey Tautou and Emily Watson.A touch of magic adds to the reality, and good camera work helps. It's only the ending that falls a little in the zone of the expected but overall this is a sensible and beautiful movie, very much worth watching.

It is rare that a film as simply plotted as The Cuckoo could be so affecting. Subtitled films often lack the subtlety of their original language, but the translation of this film is not only well done, it has its own quirky spin that gives it an extra dimension. The story is easy to grasp and seamlessly portrayed. Except for the very beginning, in which it is not known exactly why Veikko is being chained to his rock (unless you read the description of the film or watch the commentary in the DVD's special features,) the story catches your mind and heart immediately: three unlikely people meet and live together in harmony, despite being unable to understand the native languages each speaks. Though there are some humorous moments and some comic twists, generally, this story is one of accommodation and cooperation. The Finnish soldier, the Russian officer and the Sami woman all manage to make a life for themselves through the hardships inflicted by World War II, and in the end, nothing but the love and friendship shines out from their (sometimes) unwilling and often difficult partnership. The plot is best left to individual discovery by the viewer, rather than recounted here. Suffice it to say that this film will touch you in ways other films of grander scale could not. An excellent and well-played and extraordinarily satisfying story that raises the ultimate question of life on this planet: why can't we just all get along?

Towards the end of the WW2 for Finland, sniper Veikko finds himself chained to a rock in the middle of the woods and left to die, still in a German uniform so that he won't be able to surrender. Meanwhile a former captain of the Soviet army is arrested by the police and being transported when his vehicle is attacked, leaving him wounded and the others dead. A local farmer girl living without her husband, Anni, finds Ivan and starts to nurse him back to health. When Veikko escapes his rock he ends up at the farm, looking to end his war there in peace but Ivan, assuming he is a Nazi soldier, wants him dead; meanwhile Anni just wants a man and cannot believe her luck at getting two in one go. The difficulties are not helped by none of them speaking the same language.This film opens very slowly and, by only half explaining the situations, I was engaged by them and kept watching to see where they were going. After about 15/20 minutes the film settled down into the main thrust of the film – the three characters together without a common language, misunderstanding one another and each trying to do their own thing. This section is consistently amusing while still maintaining enough dramatic interest in the characters to produce a story as well; although it must be said that it is the comedy rather than the story that stayed with me after watching it. This is because I didn't think much of the film's ending – nice enough but a bit strange and serious to suit the rest of the material; if it had been making a point then it would have been better but, as it was, I didn't get any of the "deep meaning" that some reviewers have claimed to have gleamed from it. The laughs come consistently though, producing quite a few good laughs while also producing a steady amusing delivery; the contradicting conversations sounds like a one-joke affair but in reality they work much better than it sounds.The cast do well considering them having to just discount the rest of the dialogue at times – an effect them not knowing the others' lines probably helped. Juuso is very pretty and plays it well with a light comic touch – although I did wonder at times whether an isolated farmer would be as feminine and easygoing as she was. Haapasalo is enjoyable as the peace-loving Finn and Bychkov matches his performance with a good portrayal of the man driven by hate but also tired of what he has seen and lived. The film is a bit unfair on his character and never really gives him a full redemption but Bychkov deals with it well enough to cover this up for the majority. Director Rogozhkin directs them well while also using the landscape well, making for a visually interesting film.Overall this is an enjoyable little film that provides plenty of laughs within an entertaining narrative. At the end of the day it may not have a great conclusion or produce much in the way of inner meaning but it does enough to do this with the laughs taking centre stage thanks to a well-written script and clever direction of the actors.