Traveling by train from Moscow to Murmansk, a Finnish student forms an unlikely friendship with a gruff Russian miner.
A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Awards: Winner, 2021 Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prix & Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
"It's an improbably beautiful film about strangers on a train coming to terms with each other as they make peace with their troubled selves." - Wall Street Journal
"However you take it, it's a small but sure triumph." - Chicago Tribune
"Compartment No. 6 evokes a powerful nostalgia for a type of loneliness we don't really have any more, and for the type of love that was its cure." - Variety