![]() That night, however, shelling hits the village, destroying Margus' property. The Abkhaz soldiers, having set up camp nearby, promise to help harvest the tangerines in two days. When Abkhaz soldiers come to the house, Ivo convinces Ahmed to tell them that Nika is also a fellow Chechen, but whose head wound has left him unable to speak.Īfter a local military patrol fails to show to harvest the tangerines as planned, Margus is desperate. The two transform their hostility and animosity into respect and camaraderie under the moral supervision of the senior and wise Ivo. The two slowly start to see each other's honor and humanity. When the two rivals continue to heal over a period of days in the same tiny dwelling, there is a significant degree of tension between them. Ivo gets a promise from both to not carry out any retaliation under his roof, even if they both promise to kill one another once they get the strength. Ahmed (Giorgi Nakashidze), the surviving Chechen, and Nika (Mikheil Meskhi), a Georgian volunteer, are both gravely wounded, and Ivo brings them into his home to nurse them back to health. ![]() However, they get into a firefight with Georgian Army soldiers in front of Margus' house, leaving only one alive from each side. Two Chechen mercenaries fighting alongside the Abkhaz separatists show up and demand food from Ivo before leaving peacefully. Ivo, a carpenter, is attempting to make enough wooden crates to hold all the unpicked tangerines, but doesn't reveal his reasons for staying. Margus has delayed leaving until he can harvest his lucrative tangerine crop. In a rural village of ethnic Estonians in Abkhazia, a Russian-backed separatist region in the newly independent Georgia, Ivo ( Lembit Ulfsak) and his friend Margus ( Elmo Nüganen) are the only two of their once large community who have not fled for Estonia after the outbreak of the war. It was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film awards at the 87th Academy Awards and the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, losing the former to the Polish film Ida (2013) and the latter to the Russian film Leviathan(2014). Set during the 1992–1993 War in Abkhazia, the film is a morality tale addressing issues of conflict, reconciliation and pacifism. Tangerines ( Georgian: მანდარინები Mandarinebi, Estonian: Mandariinid) is a 2013 Estonian- Georgian film directed, produced and written by Zaza Urushadze.
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