Two friends navigate through the chaos of the Bolshevik invasion in 1919 Ukraine.
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From Oscar nominee director Zaza Urushadze. The friendship of a Jewish boy and a Christian, inseparable companions, endures even as their village is invaded by Bolsheviks led by Trotsky after World War I.
"The late filmmaker Zaza Urushadze, who passed away in 2019, was an excellent storyteller of war stories. But, mind you, not stories about war, but stories set in war. This is the case with the powerful and award-winning 'Tangerines', his greatest career film. And also with Anton, his last and unpublished feature film. Set in Ukraine in 1919, the feature follows the life and daily routine of two boys amidst the chaos that the region is living. After all, two years before the Russian Revolution began - a historical moment rarely addressed in cinemas - and a process of transformation. Through the eyes of the two children, Zaza Urushadze weaves a plot full of deaths, twists, intolerance and other effects of this conflict that is forming in the region. It is, once again, a powerful narrative in the hands of the filmmaker, although this time it requires prior knowledge of the period. However, in the end, the viewer is rewarded with a movie that brings new angles and provides new looks at this relationship in contrast to the horrors of the war that is forming there."