Our Best Historic Screenings​

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With our usual seasons cancelled the Committee

is making weekly recommendations of films to

watch that were screened during the last

20 years which were extremely well received

by members and guests.

This week's recommendation

Tangerines

Estonia, Georgia

2013, 87 mins.

Estonian, Russian, Georgian languages

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Directed by Zaza Urushadze

Tangerines was the 774th film screened by RFS on 14th November 2017.  The film was the third ranked film of Season 55, it got an approval mark of 92% from those attending; from season 55 we have already featured its first, second and one of the three equal fourth placed films: A Man Called Ove, Julieta and The Other Side of Hope.

Tangerines is the Oscar-nominated Estonian film from Zaza Urushadze, based on the Civil War in the Apkhazian region in 1992-1993, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Estonian actor Lembit Ulfsak plays Ivo, a carpenter whose family and their community have fled back to Estonia. His reasons for staying are unclear but he intends to help his farmer friend Margus with his tangerine crop. Ivo ends up taking the last men alive from the warring Chechens and Georgians into his house. The Chechen is Ahmed and the more seriously wounded is a Georgian, Niko. Both are in no fit state to fight, but that does not stop them threatening each other to the death.

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Full film notes available in the Twickenham

& Richmond Tribune here.

Tangerines can be streamed on Amazon Prime and disks are available from Amazon, eBay, CeX and other retailers.

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SEASON 57 PROGRAMME

10 SEPTEMBER 2019 

TO 16 JUNE 2020

TWICKENHAM FESTIVAL

Wild Rose is our

Twickenham Festival

screening on

16 June 2020

SEASON DOCUMENTATION