The lovers of the Arctic Circle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The lovers of the Arctic Circle |
| Original title | Los amantes del circulo polar |
| Country of production | Spain |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julio Médem |
| script | Julio Médem |
| production |
Fele Martínez Najwa Nimri Nancho Novo |
| music | Alberto Iglesias |
| camera | Gonzalo F. Berridi |
| occupation | |
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The lovers of the Arctic Circle (original title: Los amantes del círculo polar ) is a film by the Spanish director Julio Médem from 1998. The plot of the love film tells the story of Otto and Ana, who got to know and love each other since school and with the Time to start having a sexual relationship. When this relationship breaks up, Otto first tries to commit suicide until he finally flies to the Arctic Circle as a pilot. That is where Ana is drawn and there is a renewed rapprochement, but an accident in which Ana dies, puts an end to it. The two main characters Otto and Ana are played by Fele Martínez and Najwa Nimri . The film deals with themes such as love , death , fate and cycles in life, which play a role in many of Médem's films. The film received a number of awards, two of the 1999 Goyas being the most significant.
action
The film, which is told alternately from the perspective of the two protagonists, begins with a scene when Otto got caught with his parachute in a tree after a plane crash. He has memories of how he met Anna, his stepsister and secret love.
Otto and Ana get to know each other as school children in Madrid in 1980. He falls in love with her at first sight, but she needs some time to discover her feelings for Otto. When Ana's mother, Olga, and Otto's father, Álvaro, move in together and marry, the two become step-siblings. During this time the two discover their sexuality and begin a relationship that they hide from their parents. Both project a deeper existence into the other. Otto sees Ana as the replacement for his birth mother Ula and Ana Otto as the reincarnation of her father, who died shortly before. When Otto's mother committed suicide, he too tried to commit suicide. As a result, his relationship with Ana breaks up.
After the failed suicide attempt, Otto leaves his family and moves to Finland to begin pilot training. He follows the example of the German bomber pilot Otto Midelmann, whose life was saved by his grandfather and who was named after Otto. He passes the pilot's exam and flies as a courier between Spain and Lapland . Some time later Ana follows him and becomes a teacher in Finland, but the two do not meet. There she meets the German pilot who owns a log cabin on the Arctic Circle. Otto and Ana have made contact and want to meet in this hut. He flies there and parachutes as the plane crashes on the ground. He gets caught in a tree and misses Ana, who is heading for the next town. There she is so absorbed in a newspaper in which she reads an article about the crashed plane and assumes that Otto died while running in front of a bus. At this moment she has a vision of meeting Otto again and he actually runs to her and sees himself reflected in her eyes at the end of the film.
background
Julio Médem not only directed The Lovers of the Arctic Circle , but also wrote the book. Médem also processed his own experiences with love as an adolescent and the relationship with his father. The individual chapters from the perspective of one of the main characters are characteristic elements of the film. The film was shot in Madrid, Lapland, Lohja and Helsinki .
criticism
“A dazzling film, conceived as an emotional puzzle, which, due to the different perspectives of the two protagonists, takes on an ambivalent ambiguity. Carried by brittle poetry, it celebrates love and chance and, despite its fairy-tale form, always avoids folkloric platitudes. "
Awards
The Lovers of the Arctic Circle ran in 1998 in the competition for the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival , but received no prize there.
In 1999 the film was nominated for four Goyas and won the award for Best Editing and Best Score.
At the Athens International Film Festival, the Panorama of European Cinema , Julio Médem received the audience award in 2000, as well as the audience award in the Latin Motion Picture category at the Festival de Gramado in the Brazilian city of Gramado .
In addition, The Lovers of the Arctic Circle won the Premios Ondas for the best Spanish film, and Najwa Nimri received this award as best actress for her role as Ana.
Web links
- Leslie Camhi, "Film: Exploring Love in the Arctic, Finding Success in Spain," published March 28, 1990 in the New York Times
- Lovers of the Arctic Circle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lorenza Munoz, "Personal Journey of Medem's' Lovers" "in the LA Times on April 23, 1999, accessed at latimes.com on June 25, 2010
- ↑ Filming locations in imdb, accessed on June 25, 2010
- ↑ The lovers of the Arctic Circle. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Awards in the imdb, accessed on June 26, 2010