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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.
Budget
$3.1M
DVD / Blu-ray
Feb 12, 2013
Director
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Solar Films, Taska Film
Original Title
Puhdistus
Original Language
Finnish
Cast
Full credits →L
Laura Birn
Aliide Truu (young)
L
Liisi Tandefelt
Aliide Truu (old)
A
Amanda Pilke
Zara
P
Peter Franzén
Hans Pekk
K
Kristjan Sarv
Pasha
K
Krista Kosonen
Ingel
T
Tommi Korpela
Martin Truu
S
Sonja Nüganen
Linda (10 years)
T
Tomi Salmela
Militia
P
Panu Vauhkonen
Tall Man
J
Jaanika Arum
Katia
J
Jarmo Mäkinen
Lavrenti
P
Petteri Pennilä
Andrei
T
Taavi Eelmaa
Jaan Berg
A
Anne Reemann
Mother
E
Elmo Nüganen
Father
R
Reino Nordin
Forest Brother
K
Kristo Viiding
Forest Brother
T
Tanel Ingi
Forest Brother
M
Meelis Rondo
Forest Brother
