The Wooden Cannon (Romanian: Tunul de lemn) is a 1986 Soviet drama film directed by Vasile Brescanu.
The movie follows the life of an elderly man, David, who lives with his daughter-in-law, Maria, in their rural home by an unspecified body of water.
Maria's husband, Andrei, is a soldier fighting in World War II, and it is shown that the two have not received any news from him in some time.
A German bomber plane flies over David and Maria's home daily and disrupts their livelihoods, having already killed their livestock and threatening to destroy their house.
Frustrated, David places several gas barrels inside the house and digs a trench surrounding it, filling it with gasoline.