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Directed by | Juho Kuosmanen |
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Based on | Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom |
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Cinematography | Jani-Petteri Passi |
Edited by | Jussi Rautaniemi |
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Running time | 108 minutes [2] |
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Box office | $3.2 million [3] [4] |
Compartment No. 6 ( Finnish: Hytti nro 6; Russian: Купе номер шесть) is a 2021 drama road movie co-written and directed by Juho Kuosmanen, starring Seidi Haarla and Yuri Borisov, [5] based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Rosa Liksom. [6]
The film was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. [7] It shares the Grand Prix with Asghar Farhadi's A Hero. [8] [9] It was selected as the Finnish submission for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards [10] and was one of the 15 "shortlisted" films in the category [11] [12] 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. [13]
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. [14]
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of 120 critics' reviews are positive. The website's consensus reads: "Compartment No. 6 can get a little stuffy within its narrative confines, but this well-acted, subtly told love story rewards the viewer's patience." [15] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 80 out of 100, based on 33 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. [16]
Award | Date of ceremony | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
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Cannes Film Festival | 17 July 2021 | Palme d'Or | Juho Kuosmanen | Nominated | [17] |
Grand Prix | Won | ||||
Queer Palm | Nominated | ||||
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention | Won | ||||
British Independent Film Awards | December 5, 2021 | Best International Independent Film | Juho Kuosmanen, Livia Ulvan, Andris Feldmanis, Jussi Rantamäki, Emilia Hakka | Nominated | [18] |
European Film Awards | 11 December 2021 | Best Film | Compartment No. 6 | Nominated | [19] |
Best Actor | Yuriy Borisov | Nominated | |||
Best Actress | Seidi Haarla | Nominated | |||
Satellite Awards | 2 April 2022 | Best Foreign Language Film | Compartment No. 6 | Nominated | [20] |
Golden Globe Awards | 9 January 2022 | Best Foreign Language Film | Compartment No. 6 | Nominated | [21] [22] |
Independent Spirit Awards | 6 March 2022 | Best International Film | Compartment No. 6 | Nominated | [23] |