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Purge

Purge

Love, Deception, Sacrifice

20126.82h 5m

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.

Directed by Antti J. Jokinen
Written by Antti J. Jokinen, Sofi Oksanen, Marko Leino
Produced by Jukka Helle, Markus Selin, Maria Avdjuško
Box OfficeBudget: $3.1M0

Top Cast

Laura Birn

Laura Birn

Aliide Truu (young)

Liisi Tandefelt

Liisi Tandefelt

Aliide Truu (old)

Amanda Pilke

Amanda Pilke

Zara

Peter Franzén

Peter Franzén

Hans Pekk

Kristjan Sarv

Kristjan Sarv

Pasha

Krista Kosonen

Krista Kosonen

Ingel

Tommi Korpela

Tommi Korpela

Martin Truu

Sonja Nüganen

Sonja Nüganen

Linda (10 years)

K

Kaisa Kaljusaar

Linda (4 years)

L

Laura Kiis

Linda (newborn)

Themes & Keywords

based on novel or bookworld war iipost world war iispanning generations

About Purge

Purge is a drama, history film released in 2012 exploring themes of based on novel or book, world war ii, post world war ii, spanning generations. Directed by Antti J. Jokinen, it stars Laura Birn, Liisi Tandefelt, Amanda Pilke. 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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