''Compartment No. 6'' ( fi, Hytti nro 6; russian: Купе номер шесть) is a 2021 internationally co-produced drama road movie co-written and directed by

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, starring Seidi Haarla and Yuri Borisov, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by

Rosa Liksom Rosa Liksom (born Anni Ylävaara, Ylitornio, 7 January 1958) is a Finnish writer and artist. She studied anthropology and social sciences at the universities of Helsinki, Copenhagen and Moscow. She won the J. H. Erkko Award in 1985 for her debut ...

. The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the

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. It shares the

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with Asghar Farhadi's ''

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''. It was selected as the Finnish submission for the

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at the 94th Academy Awards and was one of the 15 "shortlisted" films in the category but was not nominated for the Oscar. During the Cannes Film Festival, Sony Pictures Classics bought the distribution rights to the film for North America as well as Latin America, Eastern Europe (excluding co-production country Russia, where the film was distributed by the domestic branch of sister company Sony Pictures Releasing in the country), Southeast Asia and the Middle East, marking the company's second acquisition of a Finnish film following Aki Kaurismäki's ''The Man Without a Past'' in 2002.

Plot

Traveling by train from Moscow to Murmansk to study the Kanozero Petroglyphs, a Finnish student finds herself in a compartment with a gruff Russian miner.

Cast

* Seidi Haarla as Laura * Yuri Borisov as Lyokha * Dinara Drukarova as Irina * Julia Aug as Natalia

Reception

Critical response

Accolades

References

External links

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