Plot Summary
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.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- Puhdistus
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- fi
- Budget
- $3.1M
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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
Sergei Enkvist
Leather Jacket Man
Taavi Eelmaa
Jaan Berg
Anne Reemann
Mother
Elmo Nüganen
Father
Reino Nordin
Forest Brother
Production Companies
Solar Films
Taska Film
