Purge

Puhdistus

“Love, Deception, Sacrifice”

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 their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.

Screenplay

Antti J. Jokinen

Novela

Sofi Oksanen

Music

Tuomas Kantelinen

Director

Antti J. Jokinen

Status

Released

Release date

07/09/2012

Original language

Finnish

Budget

US$ 3 M