# ID a foreign movie for me? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 5, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-foreign-movie-for-me/665446 "2013-08-05T23:14:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-foreign-movie-for-me/665446/1 "2013-08-05T23:14:54Z")
I caught part of this non-English, subtitled movie summer of 2004; somehow a 30-ish looking woman winds up isolated or stranded w/ two men in a snowy or arctic setting for over a year or more. The three of them share a shack and their bed, she eventually has a baby and not caring who the father is they are all happy. I seem to recall one man is 20-ish, the other 40-ish and maybe they’re soldiers? They don’t get along at first. The older man reminds me of Stellan Skarsgard in my mental image of him. Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-foreign-movie-for-me/665446/2 "2013-08-05T23:27:32Z")
It might be a Russian movie I saw a few years ago, but whose name I don’t remember. The old guy is Soviet and the young guy is a Finn who was drafted into the SS? It’s the closing days of WWII, and his German handlers chain him to a rock and abandon him in the middle of nowhere (Karelia, I think it was)? The old guy shoots him just as they’re dropped some leaflets saying that the war is over (the plane crashes and the two babes inside are killed)? The young chick lives in a dugout (Lappish, I think, with reindeer) and nurses both of them when they need it? (Don’t recall her having a baby, though, but it’s possible.) As I say, I don’t remember the title, but this should be enough to maybe identify it? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-foreign-movie-for-me/665446/3 "2013-08-05T23:44:12Z")
BING-go! > **[The Cuckoo (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo_(film))** > > The Cuckoo (Russian: Кукушка, translit. Kukuška) is a 2002 Russian war comedy drama film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. It takes place during World War II, and the action is seen from the opposing perspectives of a Soviet soldier and a Finnish soldier stranded together at a Sami woman's farmhouse. It received generally positive reviews from critics. > In September 1944, in the final moments of the Continuation War against the Soviet Union, Veikko (Ville Haapasalo), a Finnish soldier, is turned i... ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-foreign-movie-for-me/665446/4 "2013-08-09T03:19:55Z")
Lookit dat dere! Thank you! I misremembered the baby part, not surprising in so many years. I appreciate the help! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-foreign-movie-for-me/665446/5 "2013-08-09T03:42:17Z")
From reading the synopsis, it sounds like she gets a “memento” at the end after all. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-foreign-movie-for-me/665446/6 "2013-08-09T04:07:27Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > From reading the synopsis, it sounds like she gets a “memento” at the end after all. 😉 Indeed! But I didn’t see the end, so probably the friend whose house we were at told me later. I guess the Russian guy doesn’t look as much like Stellan as I thought. Still, both pretty craggy-looking. It’s a good movie, I’m going to see if Netflix has it.