The Cuckoo (2003)

Russian Drama - set in Finland in the 1940's as Finnish soldiers fight against Russian and German invaders. Unusual plot - Finnish soldier escapes from the Germans while a Russian soldier escapes court martial. Both soldiers wind up being cared for by a woman Lapp farmer whose husband was killed in the war four years earlier. The comedy is that none of them can understand the other. (Though neighbors, the Lapps, the Fins, and Russians speak languages that are very different) Nevertheless they insist on speaking - thinking the others will understand the gist of it. Not so. Well-paced, well-acted and with interesting looks at Northeast Finland. Unusual movie.