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.
Unfortunately the movie The Cuckoo is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Director |
| Production | Sergei Selyanov | Producer |
| Sound | Dmitri Pavlov | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Andrei Zhegalov | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Yuliya Rumyantseva | Editor |
| Art | Vladimir Svetozarov | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Shamkovich | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Anatoli Gudkovsky | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Sergey Sokolov | Sound Designer |
| Writing | Aleksandr Rogozhkin | Writer |
| Directing | Galla Kapitskaya | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Yuri Nikolayev | Additional Director of Photography |
| Camera | Viktor Zubarev | Steadicam Operator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Marina Nikolaeva | Costume Design |
