Genres

Drama , History

Duration

125 min

Director

Antti J. Jokinen

Rating

6.8

Release Date

September 7, 2012

Purge

Original title: Puhdistus

Synopsis

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.