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Purge (2012)

Purge (2012)

Drama History

Love, Deception, Sacrifice

Release Date: 2012, September 7
Directors: Antti J. Jokinen
Countries: Estonia, Finland
Production: Solar Films, Taska Film
Cast: Krista Kosonen, Tommi Korpela, Sten Zupping, Laura Birn, Peter Franzén, Tomi Salmela, Oleg Rogatšov, Anne Reemann, Kristo Viiding, Jarmo Mäkinen, Reino Nordin, Jaanika Arum

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book world war ii post world war ii spanning generations