TANGERINES

​Wednesday November 16th 2016

Georgia  2013  87 minutes
Director: Zaza Urushadze
Starring: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nuganun,  Giergi Nakashidze.

It is 1992, and there is a bloody civil war underway in Georgia. Many civilians have fled from the fighting, but two elderly farmers, Ivo and Marcus, have stayed behind to harvest their tangerine crop. Fighting in their village leaves two wounded men behind, and Ivo feels compelled to take them both into his home. Unfortunately they are from opposing sides- Nicko is a Georgian and Ahmed a Chechen mercenary. The resulting tensions as they recover have been described by one film critic as ‘engaging, intelligent anti-war story-telling’