PURGE
synopsis
The story of two women from two different eras linked by separate tales of deceit, desperation - and fear. Aliide has experienced the horrors of the Stalin era and the deportation of Estonians to Siberia, but she herself has to cope with the guilt of opportunism and even manslaughter. One night in 1992 she finds a young woman in the courtyard of her house; Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia who held her as a sex slave. Aliide later finds out that the girl is related to her. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in a complex arithmetic of suspicion and revelation to distill each other’s motives; gradually, their stories emerge, the culmination of a tragic family drama of rivalry, lust, and loss that played out during the worst years of Estonia’s Soviet occupation.
international title: | Purge |
original title: | Puhdistus |
country: | Finland, Estonia |
sales agent: | TrustNordisk |
year: | 2012 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Antti Jokinen |
release date: | FI 07/09/2012 |
screenplay: | Marko Leino, Antti Jokinen |
cinematography by: | Rauno Ronkainen |
film editing: | Kimmo Taavila |
art director: | Tiina Paavilainen |
costumes designer: | Anna Vilppunen |
producer: | Jesse Fryckman, Tor Jonasson, Lone Korslund, Sofi Oksanen, Jukka Helle, Markus Selin, Kristian Taska, Maria Avdjushko |
production: | Solar Films Inc. Oy, Taska Film |
backing: | Finnish Film Foundation, Estonian Film Foundation, MEDIA, Nordisk Film & TV Fond |
distributor: | Nordisk Film AB |