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Tangerines (2013)

Original title: Mandariinid

Feature film | War Duration 87:00

Sünopsis

Oscar's nomination in the category of the best foreign language film- The Award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (USA).
It is the autumn of 1992 when the military conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia has influenced also Estonian villages with more than hundred years history. Local people have fleed from the war. An Estonian man Ivo takes two seriously wounded enemies - a Georgian and a Chechen - to his house to take care of them. Ivo is a wise old man remains righteous during the war while trying to conciliate the two bloodthirsty warriors. This is a story about hatred and love; revenge and forgiveness; evil and dignity.

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