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 ...

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 ...

The premise of the film --a Russian, a Finn and a Lapp who can't understand each other thogether in a tiny backwoods hut -- sounds like the beginning of a good joke, and Alexander Rogozhkin's "The ...

“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Student-run film series “Identity” Sept. 22 (Wed), 5 pm, Washington 201 The Cuckoo (dir. Aleksandr Rogozhkin, 2002) Sept. 30 (Thu), 5 pm, Washington 201 The Saint (dir. Phillip Noyce, 1997) ...