Purge

2012 · Directed by Antti J. Jokinen

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.

Cast: Laura Birn, Peter Franzén, Krista Kosonen, Tommi Korpela, Tomi Salmela, Anne Reemann, Reino Nordin, Amanda Pilke, Jarmo Mäkinen, Jaanika Arum

Rating: 6.798/10 from 42 votes