Purge (2012)
September 7, 2012
Drama, History
2h 5m
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, and their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Antti J. Jokinen
- Aliide Truu (young) Laura Birn
- Aliide Truu (old) Liisi Tandefelt
- Zara Amanda Pilke
- Hans Pekk Peter Franzén
- Pasha Kristjan Sarv
- Ingel Krista Kosonen
- Martin Truu Tommi Korpela
- Linda (10 years) Sonja Nüganen
Recommendations
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- world war ii
- post world war ii
- spanning generations