Tangerines (film)

Tangerines Georgian Mandarinebi, Estonian Mandariinid is a 2013 EstonianGeorgian film, directed, produced and written by Zaza Urushadze Georgian film director and screenwriter. The film carries a pacifist message and examines wartime realities regarding the meaning of how to be human. It was filmed in Guria, Georgia.

In a rural village of Ethnic Estonians in Abkhazia Georgia, Ivo Lembit Ulfsak and Margus Elmo Nganen are the only who have not fled for Estonia after the outbreak of the 19921993 War in Abkhazia. Margus is waiting to leave until he can hopefully harvest his lucrative tangerine crop, while his friend Ivo is a carpenter who attempts to make enough wooden crates to hold all the unpicked tangerines. Ivo however doesnt reveal his reasons for staying. Two ominous Chechen soldiers show up and extort food from Ivo, but leave peacefully and with respect for a lone, elderly grandfather, who is only minding his own work. The soldiers however get into a firefight with Georgian soldiers in front of Margus house, leaving only one alive from each side. Ahmed Giorgi Nakashidze, a Chechen mercenary on the Abkhazian side, and Niko Mikheil Meskhi, a Georgian volunteer, are both gravely wounded, and Ivo brings them into his home to nurse them back to health.While both vow to kill each other once they have the strength, Ivo secures a pledge from each to not enact any vengeance under his roof. A great deal of tension ensues between the two enemies as they begin to recover over many days in the same tiny house. Slowly, the two begin to recognize the humanity and honor in each other. Under the moral tutelage of the senior and wise Ivo, the two move from hatred and antagonism, to respect and camaraderie. When Chechen soldiers come to the house, Ivo convinces Ahmed to tell them that Niko is also a fellow Chechen soldier, but whose head wound has left him unable to speak. ........

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