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Relativity

Director: Mariko Minoguchi
Year: 2019
Genre: Drama
Length: 111 min.

“Relativity implies that the future and the past have the same validity for the present,” says physicist Aron. Shortly thereafter, he dies in the arms of his girlfriend Nora during a bank robbery, whereupon the exciting love and crime drama, undertakes to prove his theory of how everything is connected, the past with the future.

This film is part of the annual film series "Lots of Love"

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