Maverick Russian director Alexander Rogozhkin hit upon a clever idea for his idiosyncratic anti-war fable The Cuckoo (Kukushka in Russian). The three main characters, marooned together on a remote ...

As the Nazi occupiers of Finland fled the advancing Soviet army near the end of WWII, they stranded some Finnish soldiers who had been recruited to fight for the German side. Rarely has the arbitrary ...

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MOSCOW — Alexander Rogozhkin’s “The Cuckoo” took main prizes at Russia’s first Golden Eagle film awards but, controversially, foreign-lingo Oscar nomination “House of Fools” by Andrei Konchalovsky ...

Anti-war films may not be exactly in vogue these days, but “The Cuckoo” harks back to an earlier time: the Cold War era, when movie attacks on war in general were more common. Set in Lapland during ...

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rogozhkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Рого́жкин; 3 October 1949 – 23 October 2021; Leningrad) was a Russian film director and writer. In 1990, Rogozhkin directed Karaul, ...

“The Cuckoo” is cuckoo for an intoxicating myth: that of the noble savage, the pre-moral hero who lived a simple, uninhibited, eco-friendly life way back when — before civilization came along and ...

A far cry from the proletarian dilapidation on display at BAM’s current Aki Kaurismäki retro, the Finland of The Cuckoo practically gleams with the intensity of a sylvan mythscape—an enchanted land ...

Find out what’s new this week on streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, Crave, Paramount+, BritBox, CBC Gem and more. Several new films released, but Beetlejuice ...

Find out what’s new this week on streaming services such as Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+, Paramount+ and BritBox, as well as on DVD/Blu-ray. Inside Out 2 takes top spot at the weekend box ...