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Heartless

Haukur Björgvinsson · Iceland · Sci-Fi / Romance / Drama · 16 min · 21K views

Directed by Haukur Björgvinsson · Starring Jóhann Kristófer Stefánsson, Bríet Elfar, Ólafur Egilsson, Ísar Máni Birkisson · 2021

Anna and Gunnar are deeply in love, but in their society everyone is assigned a new spouse by lottery every seven years, and the system threatens to tear them apart.

A dystopian romance built on a chillingly simple premise: a state lottery that reassigns everyone's spouse every seven years.

Young couple Anna and Gunnar are deeply in love but they face being torn apart by a society where people are assigned a new spouse by lottery every seven years

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