Tangerines
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tangerines |
| Original title | Mandariinid / მანდარინები |
| Country of production |
Estonia Georgia |
| original language | Estonian , Russian |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sasa Uruschadze |
| script | Sasa Uruschadze |
| production |
Iwo Felt Sasa Uruschadze |
| music | Nijas Dijassamidse |
| camera | Rein Kotow |
| cut | Alexander Kuranov |
| occupation | |
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Tangerines , Estonian Mandariinid or Georgian მანდარინები , is an Estonian-Georgian film drama by Sasa Uruschadze from 2013.
action
During the Georgian-Abkhazian War in the early 1990s: Iwo and Margus are the only residents of their village who have not yet fled to Estonia before the war . Margus only wants to stay until the mandarins from his small plantation are harvested. Iwo helps him by making stairs for the mandarins. Margus hopes that he can leave soon, as an officer has promised him to send 200 soldiers for the harvest.
Iwo receives a visit from the Chechen mercenaries Achmed and Ibrahim, who demand food from him and after a short time they leave. Shortly afterwards, Iwo and Margus hear a violent exchange of fire. Achmed and Ibrahim have fought with Georgians in front of Margus' house. Only Achmed seems to have survived injured and is brought to Iwo's house and cared for. Only when Ibrahim and the three Georgian victims are buried do Iwo and Margus realize that a young Georgian named Nika has also survived. He is also housed in Iwo's house with a severe head wound and shortly afterwards treated by doctor Juchan. Achmed announces that he will kill Nika as soon as he is physically able to do so, as he will ultimately have to avenge Ibrahim's death. Only after a while can Iwo make him promise not to commit murder in his house.
Margus' hope of finishing the harvest is not fulfilled because the soldiers do not come. Nika is slowly recovering; the initial conflicts between him and Achmed subsided piece by piece, so that Nika can soon go outside without being killed by Achmed. When Iwo is visited by Abkhazians one day, Akhmed covers up Nika, who is alleged to be his Chechen friend Ibrahim and who lost his voice in the fight. Iwo receives a promise from the leader of the Abkhazians, Aslan, to send a few men over to harvest the mandarins. Margus draws hope again.
One evening Iwo, Margus, Achmed and Nika were eating shashlik when explosions sounded not far. Margus' house also goes up in flames. The group suspects that Aslan's men were attacked and killed. Margus is devastated. He refuses any money from Ahmed, who wants to finance his trip to Estonia, because he does not want war money. Achmed and Nika apologize to each other for the death of their comrades. Nika confesses to Iwo that she is actually an actor; Iwo promises that all three of them will see a theater performance of Nikas one day. Shortly afterwards, Russians appear at Iwo's house. They threaten Achmed, whom they believe is a Georgian. When they want to shoot Achmed, Nika shoots them from Iwo's house. Margus dies in the sustained fire; Nika helps Achmed obtain a weapon and is ultimately killed by one of the Russians.
Iwo and Achmed are left alone. Both manufacture two coffins in Iwo's carpentry workshop. Margus is buried in his tangerine grove, while Iwo Nika is buried next to his son, who died shortly after the start of the war. Achmed is confused, but Iwo realizes that it makes no difference and that he would have buried Achmed next to his son. Achmed leaves shortly afterwards. While driving he hears music from a cassette that Nika had with her.
production
The idea for the film goes back to Sasa Uruschadse, Artur Veeber and Tatjana Mülbeier ; Uruschadze wrote the script in just two weeks. For him, Tangerines is not a war film, but a "film about people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time, but who still try to remain human."
Tangerines was shot with a budget of around 650,000 euros in the Guria region in Georgia, not far from the border with Abkhazia. The song that can be heard at the end of the film is Qagaldis Nawi by the Georgian singer Irakli Tscharkwijani .
The film premiered on October 16, 2013 at the Warsaw International Film Festival . In Germany it was first seen on October 31, 2013 at the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival .
Awards
Tangerines has won numerous international film awards. In 2013 the film won the audience award at the Warsaw International Film Festival; Sasa Uruschadze was honored as the best director and nominated for the festival's Grand Prix. At the International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, the film received, among other things, the Audience Award and the Mannheim-Heidelberg Special Award. At the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tangerines won the Estonian Film Prize and was nominated for the Grand Prix. In 2014, the film won a Satellite Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for Audience Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival .
In 2015, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film , where it entered the competition for Estonia. It was the first Estonian film to be nominated for an Oscar. Also in 2015, Tangerines was nominated for a Golden Globe in the category Best Foreign Language Film .
Web links
- Tangerines in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Details according to the credits of the film.
- ↑ a b Tiit Tuumalu: Ulfsakita poleks sellist filmi sündinud . In: kultuur.postimees.ee, October 23, 2013.
- ↑ "See on film inimestest, kes satuvad elama valel ajal valesse kohta, aga vaatamata sellele üritavad jääda inimesteks." Cf. Tiit Tuumalu: Ulfsakita poleks sellist filmi sündinud . In: kultuur.postimees.ee, October 23, 2013.