Posted by moviePig on 01/11/82 11:35

Heinrich Galland wrote:

> In article <5tBrf.1490$Z95.911@fe04.lga>, moviePig
> <pwallace@moviepig.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Goro wrote:
>>
>>
>>>thad@thadlabs.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Goro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>It's a foreign film about the Bosnian war (i think). It was about 3
>>>>>people, i think 2 men and 1 woman, each of whom speaks a different
>>>>>language. One guy is a prisoner. They are on the border and to get to
>>>>>safety/freedom, they need to work together, even though they don't
>>>>>speak each other's language.
>>>>
>>>>NO MAN'S LAND
>>>>
>>>><http://www.au-cinema.com/No-Man's-Land.htm>
>>>>
>>>>Googling using "bosnia war dvd" found it instantly.
>>>
>>>
>>>Thanks for the help, but that's not it.
>>
>>That's a relief. I'd thought of NML, but didn't recall that scenario.
>>
>>Now, here comes the kind of help you get when you're lost and you ask
>>some guy who can't admit he hasn't a clue: I think your movie involved
>>the three of them living by stream in the mountains... through a fairly
>>harsh winter... there was a primitive shack of some sort... not sure it
>>was Bosnia either... mostly a comedy, I think, about language, sex, etc.
>>... and the real bitch is that I think I liked this movie quite a lot...
>
> There is a World War II movie that I remember with the same scenario
> called "The Cuckoo." It synopsis follows:
>
> September 1944, in a land torn apart by war, a Finnish sniper is
> labeled a coward by his compatriots; as punishment, he is nailed to a
> rock and left to his own devices. Not long after, a disgraced Russian
> Captain, en route to his court martial, is injured in an accident. Both
> men are about to find out they have one thing in common. Wounded and
> emotionally tortured, they are taken in by Anni, a young, resourceful
> war widow, who offers shelter to one while nursing the other back to
> health. None of them understands the others' languages, but it doesn't
> seem to matter. Isolated, the three unlikely roommates - a Finn, a
> Russian and a Lapp - overcome both comic and tragic misunderstandings
> to form a passionate three-way...relationship. Because after a day of
> hard work on Anni¹s farm, who needs words?

That's undoubtedly the one I was thinking of (...and probably the o.p.,
too). I'd never have remembered the name... and, even more distressing,
I seem to have ranked it not particularly high. (It gets a very
creditable 7.9 at IMDb.) Thanks.

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