Juho Kuosmanen
Scompartimento n. 6

1990s. Laura, a Finnish archaeology student in Moscow, and Lioha, a Russian underclass worker. They meet in compartment no. 6, the sleeping car of a train bound for Murmansk. A long journey towards the Great North. She, a lesbian, is unknowingly fleeing a finished relationship. He, more prosaically, is going to work at the gigantic mine. Under the surface, a possible metaphor emerges, Scandinavia crosses paths with the Great Mother Russia: the deep, generous, and indomitable Russia that flashes in Lioha's feline eyes. An extraordinary performance by Yuryi Borisov in a film that unfolds effortlessly, narrating the birth of a trust and friendship relationship between two seemingly distant people.