Purge(2012)

Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually, and their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.

Genre: Drama, History

Director: Antti J. Jokinen

Actors: Laura Birn, Liisi Tandefelt, Amanda Pilke, Peter Franzén, Kristjan Sarv, Krista Kosonen, Tommi Korpela, Sonja Nüganen, Kaisa Kaljusaar, Laura Kiis

Release date: 2012-09-07

Country of origin: Estonia, Finland

Length: 2h 5m

Ratings:

• 7.1/10