Monday, April 25, 2022

Armchair travel by train

Compartment No. 6 (2021)
Director/Writer: Juho Kuosmanen
Writer: Andris Feldmanis
Based on book by: Rosa Liksom
Stars: Yuriy Borisov, Seidi Haarla, Yuliya Aug
Drama, Romance, Russia | imdb

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 Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own yearning for human connection.

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Compartment K
by Helen Reilly
Mystery, Canada | Published: 1964 (first 1955) | Goodreads | my rating: 4

It had been planned, everybody thought, as a family weekend. The Canadian Rockies, a lodge--it was something to look forward to. Until an uninvited guest became part of the group. A man of mystery. A stranger. But there was no mystery about this: as the miles faded, a killer stalked the night and the stranger became a corpse. And he was, it turned out, not such a stranger after all...

 
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