Purge

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.

Director: Antti J. Jokinen

Cast

Laura Birn

Aliide Truu (young)

Liisi Tandefelt

Aliide Truu (old)

Amanda Pilke

Zara

Peter Franzén

Hans Pekk

Kristjan Sarv

Pasha

Krista Kosonen

Ingel

Tommi Korpela

Martin Truu

Sonja Nüganen

Linda (10 years)

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Kaisa Kaljusaar

Linda (4 years)

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Laura Kiis

Linda (newborn)