Compartment No. 6

[Opens March 11 in theaters.] After a gay, brooding Finnish archaeology graduate student (Seidi Haarla), who aspires to be a paleontologist, is jilted by her literature professor lover (Dinara Drukarova) in Moscow and goes by herself to visit 10,000-year-old petroglyphs near the Arctic Circle close to the port of Murmansk and meets an obnoxious, heavy-drinking, crass Russian miner (Yuri Borisov) with a traumatic past while sharing a cramped sleeping compartment on board the Trans Siberia Express train in the late 1990s in Juho Kuosmanen's award-winning, realistic, well-acted, beautifully photographed, offbeat, bittersweet, 107-minute film based on Rosa Liksom's 2011 novel, she slowly lets down her walls and ultimately develops a surprising connection with her compartment mate.
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