Purge
Puhdistus
Drama
History
Love, Deception, Sacrifice
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.
2012-09-07
fi
Cast
Director
Antti J. Jokinen
Laura Birn as Aliide Truu (young)
Liisi Tandefelt as Aliide Truu (old)
Amanda Pilke as Zara
Peter Franzén as Hans Pekk
Kristjan Sarv as Pasha
Krista Kosonen as Ingel
Tommi Korpela as Martin Truu
Sonja Nüganen as Linda (10 years)
Tomi Salmela as Militia
Jaanika Arum as Katia
Jarmo Mäkinen as Lavrenti
Petteri Pennilä as Andrei
Taavi Eelmaa as Jaan Berg
Anne Reemann as Mother
Elmo Nüganen as Father
Reino Nordin as Forest Brother
Kristo Viiding as Forest Brother
Tanel Ingi as Forest Brother
Meelis Rondo as Forest Brother
Eero Spriit as Militia
Sten Zupping as Militia
Oleg Rogatšov as Militia
Juri Žilin as Militia
Marta Vaarik as Victim of Human Trading
Katariina Libe as Victim of Human Trading
Ester Pajusoo as Midwife