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The movie is about love -- or, rather, about their grand ideas of romance. It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Destiny cannot be denied.
1998 · 1h 52m · R
Drama, Mystery, Romance
Directed by
Julio Medem
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Lovers of the Arctic Circle
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As young children, Otto and Ana become best friends, leading to the marriage of Ana's mother to Otto's father. When Otto and Ana become teenagers, they begin a sexual relationship, which they hide from their parents. The two fall deeply in love and seem destined to spend the rest of their lives together. However, their relationship is tested when Otto's mother dies and the two are separated.
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