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Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings

  • Starring: Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Viktor Bychkov, Ville Haapasalo
  • Summary: Set in the remote wastelands of northern Russia in September, 1944, this is the story of a romantic triangle that develops between a local Lapp woman and the two soldiers from opposite sides of World War II, a deserter sniper from the Finnish army and a Soviet Army captain, to whom she gives refuge.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 27
  2. Negative: 1 out of 27
  1. Reviewed by: Deborah Young
    80
    Charming, smart and funny.
  2. Reviewed by: David Parkinson
    60
    Lushly photographed by Andrei Zhegalov and impeccably played, it’s a long-overdue corrective to the kind of wildly patriotic war film produced in the Soviet era.
  3. By the time you've worked through the allegorical implications, you may be wondering why you didn't just go see "Charlie's Angels."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 0 out of 7
  1. 10
    Human
  2. 10
    Perfection! Incredibly great! One of my top 10 movies of all time. Presents us with a completely foreign culture, and two others at war with each other. They don't understand each other. Wait, but they do. After all, we are all human. Expand

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