Puhdistus

"Love, Deception, Sacrifice"

Sep 7 2012 Not Rated 2h 5m

Crime, Drama

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, and their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.

Plot

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.

Written by

Marko Leino, Antti J. Jokinen, Sofi Oksanen

Directed by

Antti J. Jokinen

Cast

Laura Birn, Liisi Tandefelt, Amanda Pilke

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Production Countries

Finland, Estonia

Production Companies

Solar Films, Taska Film

Languages

suomi

Awards

7 wins & 5 nominations total

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# of Votes

4,016

Average Rating

7.1 out of 10

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