Life at the I-House

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff,

This is to remind you that our first film will be shown this Thursday night (January 15) at 6:30pm in Lindsay Young Auditorium in Hodges Library. This is a Russian film, which was rewarded to several domestic and international rewards such as Golden Eagle 2003 and NIKA 2003. We will also invite Natalie Pervukhin, Professor of Modern Foreign Language, to give a short speech about the movie. Below please see a brief plot synopsis of the film.

The Cuckoo is a 2002 film directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. Its Russian title is Kukushka. In September 1944, near the end of WWII, a Russian idealist, a Finish college student and a Swedish peasant woman find themselves confined to a tiny backwoods hut. Unable to speak each other's language, the two men begin to fall in love with the woman and are forced to let their body language speak for them.