
Synopsis & Context
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.
Title Dossier
- Original Title
- Puhdistus
- Release
- September 7, 2012
- Screen Time
- 2h 05min
- Rating
- N/A
- Direction
- Antti J. Jokinen
- Original Language
- Finnish
- Country of Origin
- Estonia
- Production Status
- Released
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