Compartment No. 6

Hytti nro 6

This love story between two people who initially dislike each other is a tender and affecting tale from the director of The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki.

  • Director

    Juho Kuosmanen

  • With

    Seidi Haarla, Yura Borisov

  • Finland-Estonia-Germany-Russia 2021. 108min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    15

  • English subtitles

Her long-term relationship crumbling, a Finnish art student takes a train beyond the Arctic Circle to the north coast of Russia. She’s forced to share an austere compartment with a boorish young miner (Yura Borisov, as brilliant here as he was in Anora) who delights in making her feel uncomfortable. But as the landscape outside grows bleaker, these two lost souls begin tentatively to share empathy and friendship. Sublime and heart-warming, Kuosmanen’s Cannes Grand Prix winner has the gentle profundity of Chekhov’s best stories.

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