Purge

Purge

6.8IMDb Score
Released:2012-09-07
Duration:125 min
Director:Antti J. Jokinen
Actors:Laura Birn, Liisi Tandefelt, Amanda Pilke, Peter Franzén, Kristjan Sarv
Production:Solar Films, Taska Film

Overview:

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.

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