Purge
Puhdistus
2012, Film, 125 min, Crime, Drama, Finnish, Finland, MoviePedia score 68
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.
Directed by Antti J. Jokinen
Cast
- Laura Birn as young-Ingel's sister
- Liisi Tandefelt as old-Ingel's sister
- Amanda Pilke as Linda's daughter
- Peter Franzén as Ingel's husband
- Kristjan Sarv as Gang member
- Krista Kosonen as Aliide's sister-Hans' wife
- Tommi Korpela as Aliide's husband
- Sonja Nüganen as Hans and Ingel's daughter
- Kaisa Kaljusaar as Linda, 4 years
- Laura Kiis as Linda, newborn
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