Cannes 2021: Film will compete for the Palme d’Or at the festival
Beatrice Verhoeven | July 15, 2021 @ 3:10 PM
Cannes Film Festival
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the rights to “Compartment No. 6,” which is in competition at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Juho Kuosmanen’s film was produced by Jussi Rantamäki and Emilia Haukka for Aamu Film Company, based on the novel by Rosa Liksom. Andris Feldmanis, Livia Ulman and Kuosmanen wrote the script.
“Compartment No. 6” stars Seidi Haarla and Yuriy Borisov and will compete for the Palme d’Or. It’s about a young Finnish woman who boards a train in Moscow to the arctic port of Murmansk to escape a love affair. She is forced to share the long ride and a tiny cabin with a larger Russian miner, and during their journey they face truths about human connection.
Sony Pictures Classics buys Finnish-Estonian film Compartment No 6 rights
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