Friday, June 17, 2016

The citrus war

An elderly Estonian has stayed behind enemy lines to harvest his tangerines. Stuck in between Georgian and Abkhazian war in 1992, he ends up nursing two wounded soldiers on both sides. They have fought crazy wars the ordinary people in the Caucasus region, essentially brothers against brothers, and this movie cuts a very clear image of it, one of those heartfelt pieces you feel in your gut.

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