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Official Selection - Out of Competition

Festivals and Awards:

74th Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prix and Ecumenical Jury Prize – Special Mention (both awarded to Juho Kuosmanen)

Crew:

Screenplay: Andris Feldmanis, Juho Kuosmanen, Livia Ulman and Rosa Liksom (from her book)
Cinematography: Jani-Petteri Passi
Production: Emilia Haukka, Jussi Rantamäki

Compartment No. 6

A film by Juho Kuosmanen

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An adaptation of the homonymous novel by Rosa Liksom, Compartment No. 6, the second feature film by the Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen (after The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki was awarded the prize for the parallel Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in 2016),  closely follows the gradual connection that is being established between two passengers – a young Finnish student in need of a break from her girlfriend and a complicated and ordinary Russian man – who travel in the same compartment of a train departing from Moscow bound for the port of Murmansk in the Arctic Circle. Although there is a bit of friction at first, as they get to know each other a closer bond grows between the two that changes their lives.
  • Cast:

    Seidi Haarla, Yuriy Borisov, Dinara Drukarova
  • Original Title:

    Hytti nro 6
  • Country:

    Finland, Germany, Estonia, Russia
  • Year:

    2021
  • 107’ Subtitles: PT

Festivals and Awards:

74th Cannes Film Festival – Grand Prix and Ecumenical Jury Prize – Special Mention (both awarded to Juho Kuosmanen)

Crew:

Screenplay: Andris Feldmanis, Juho Kuosmanen, Livia Ulman and Rosa Liksom (from her book)
Cinematography: Jani-Petteri Passi
Production: Emilia Haukka, Jussi Rantamäki

Director

Juho Kuosmanen

Born in 1979, Juho Kuosmanen is a Finnish director and screenwriter based in Helsinki. In 2014, he finished his studies at the School of Art and Design at Aalto University, with a thesis film, The Painting Sellers, that earned him five nominations for the Finnish Academy of Cinema awards. Some of his short films have won several awards at major festivals such as Locarno. He has also worked as an opera director. With The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, he won at Cannes, in 2016, the award for the section Un Certain Regard. In this year's Cannes edition, Compartment No. 6 won the Grand Prix (the second most important distinction at the festival), ex aequo with Asghar Farhadi's A Hero.
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