Purge
“Love, Deception, Sacrifice”
2012•16•2h 5m•6.9•Released
DramaHistory
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
Writer
Marko Leino, Antti J. Jokinen
Budget
$3M
Languages
Finnish
Studio
Solar Films
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)
Kaisa Kaljusaar
Linda (4 years)
Laura Kiis
Linda (newborn)
Tomi Salmela
Militia
Panu Vauhkonen
Tall Man
Jaanika Arum
Katia
Jarmo Mäkinen
Lavrenti
Petteri Pennilä
Andrei
Production
Company
Solar Films
Company
Taska Film
Producer
Markus Selin
Producer
Jukka Helle
Producer
Maria Avdjuško
Producer
Kristian Taska
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