A second-hand bike, barely any money in his pocket, and more than 10,000 kilometres ahead.
The Cycle of Love tells the incredible true story of PK, who leaves India in 1975 on a bicycle and embarks on an extraordinary journey to Sweden to find the woman he fell in love with. A heartwarming documentary about love, determination, and the remarkable people who help him along the way.
A love story so unlikely, so deeply moving, that it is still told in Swedish primary schools today.
In 1975, a young Indian man named PK falls in love with a Swedish woman, Lotta. When she returns home, he sets off on a second-hand bicycle, with barely any money in his pocket, on a journey of more than 10,000 kilometres to find her again.
What follows is a breathtaking adventure: a journey through unfamiliar countries, across mountain passes and endless landscapes, relying time and again on the kindness of strangers he meets along the way.
PK is a Dalit, one of India’s so-called “untouchables”: born at the very bottom of the caste system, he is destined to a life of poverty and exclusion. Yet an astrologer makes an extraordinary, almost impossible prediction at the time of his birth about the woman he will one day love. When PK meets Lotta in New Delhi, it seems the prophecy is finally coming true.
But when Lotta fails to keep her promise to return and see him again, that certainty begins to fade.
Oscar-winning director Orlando von Einsiedel (The White Helmets) brings this extraordinary true story to life by retracing the journey with PK and a young actor who portrays him. Through re-enactments, interviews and encounters along the way, he weaves past and present into a captivating story of love, humanity and perseverance.
The Cycle of Love is one of those rare stories that is almost impossible to believe really happened. A heartwarming documentary that leaves you walking out of the cinema with a renewed faith in love — and in humanity.
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