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Compartment No. 6 (2021)

Compartment No. 6 poster
Original title
Hytti nro 6
Directed by
Juho Kuosmanen
Genre
drama film, road movie
Country
Estonia, Germany, Russia, Finland
Runtime
1h 47m
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 467 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A Finnish student takes a long train ride from Moscow to Murmansk during winter. She shares a cramped compartment with a rough Russian miner and they slowly connect despite their differences.

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What happens

Compartment No. 6 (Finnish: Hytti nro 6; Russian: Купе номер шесть, romanized: Kupe nomer shest) is a 2021 drama road movie directed by Juho Kuosmanen, co-written with Andris Feldmanis and Livia Ulman, it's based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Rosa Liksom. It follows Laura (Seidi Haarla), a lesbian Finnish student traveling by train from Moscow to Murmansk to study the Kanozero Petroglyphs, in a shared compartment with a gruff Russian miner (Yura Borisov). The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on 10 July, where it won the Grand Prix. It was theatrically released in Finland on 29 October by B-Plan Distribution. It was selected as the Finnish submission for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, it was one of the 15 shortlisted films, but was not nominated for the Oscar. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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