Purge (2012)

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.

Released

2012-09-07

Genres

Drama, History

Runtime

125 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Antti J. Jokinen, Marko Leino, Antti J. Jokinen

TMDB rating

6.9/10 from 65 votes