Compartment No 6: Strangers bond on a train
Cannes award-winner follows unlikely friendship in post-Soviet Russia
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Cannes award-winner follows unlikely friendship in post-Soviet Russia
Long-distance travel makes hearts grow fonder. Film review by Nick Hasted
Long-distance travel makes hearts grow fonder, in a poignantly Russia-traversing romance
Juho Kuosmanen’s film places a Russian corner boy on a train with a Finnish student
A young Finnish woman and a tough Russian guy meet on a train heading from Moscow to Murmansk in the turbulent 1990s. Luckily, what begins as a nightmare veers off in another direction altogether, with ‘Compartment No. 6’ becoming a culturally important relic of the turbulent Soviet past.