''Compartment No. 6'' (; ) is a 2021

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co-written and directed by

Juho Kuosmanen Juho Kuosmanen (born September 30, 1979) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He graduated from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in 2014. Kuosmanen's graduation film called The Painting Sellers was nominated for fiv ...

, starring Seidi Haarla and

Yura Borisov Yuri Alexandrovich Borisov (; born 8 December 1992) is a Russian actor. He made his acting debut in the crime drama '' Elena'' (2011) and then won a Golden Eagle Award for his portrayal of Mikhail Kalashnikov in the biopic ''AK-47'' (2020). H ...

, based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Rosa Liksom. The film was selected to compete for the

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at the

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where it shared the

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with

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's ''

A Hero ''A Hero'' () is a 2021 drama film written, co-produced and directed by Asghar Farhadi, starring Amir Jadidi, Mohsen Tanabandeh and Sahar Goldoost. The film was selected to the Palm d'Or competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, winning the ...

''. It was selected as the Finnish submission for the Best International Feature Film at the

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and was one of the 15 "shortlisted" films in the category but was not nominated for the Oscar. During the Cannes Film Festival,

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bought the distribution rights to the film for

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, the

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and

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, excluding co-production country Russia, where the film was distributed by the local branch of the sister company,

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, marking the company's second acquisition of a Finnish film following

Aki Kaurismäki Aki Olavi Kaurismäki (; born 4 April 1957) is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He is best known for the award-winning '' Drifting Clouds'' (1996), '' The Man Without a Past'' (2002), ''Le Havre'' (2011), '' The Other Side of Hope'' (201 ...

's ''

The Man Without a Past ''The Man Without a Past'' () is a 2002 Finnish comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Starring Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen and Juhani Niemelä, it is the second installment in Kaurismäki's ''Finland'' trilo ...

'' in 2002.

Plot

Traveling by train from

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to study the Kanozero Petroglyphs, a Finnish student finds herself in a compartment with a gruff Russian miner.

Cast

* Seidi Haarla as Laura *

as Lyokha *

Dinara Drukarova Dinara Anatolyevna Drukarova (; born 3 January 1976) is a Soviet and Russian actress and film director. Life and career Drukarova was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), and still lives there half the ye ...

as Irina * Julia Aug as Natalia

Reception

Critical response

Accolades

References

External links

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