Purge (2015)

  • 16
  • 03/12/2015 (DE)
  • Drama, History
  • 2h 5m

Love, Deception, Sacrifice

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

Antti J. Jokinen

Director, Screenplay

Marko Leino

Screenplay

Sofi Oksanen

Novel

Cast

Laura Birn's headshot

Laura Birn

Aliide Truu (young)
Liisi Tandefelt's headshot

Liisi Tandefelt

Aliide Truu (old)
Amanda Pilke's headshot

Amanda Pilke

Zara
Peter Franzén's headshot

Peter Franzén

Hans Pekk
Kristjan Sarv's headshot

Kristjan Sarv

Pasha
Krista Kosonen's headshot

Krista Kosonen

Ingel
Tommi Korpela's headshot

Tommi Korpela

Martin Truu
Sonja Nüganen's headshot

Sonja Nüganen

Linda (10 years)

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