

Purge
Puhdistus
6.8
62
Year
2012
Country
Estonia, Finland
Genre
Drama, History
The slogan
Love, Deception, Sacrifice
Director
Antti J. Jokinen

Antti J. Jokinen
Director
Writer
Marko Leino

Marko Leino
Screenplay
Sofi Oksanen

Sofi Oksanen
Novel
Antti J. Jokinen

Antti J. Jokinen
Screenplay
Budget
3,100,000 $
Duration
2h 5min
Description
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.



















