

Movie·2012·2h 5m
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Love, Deception, Sacrifice
Country
Estonia
Language
Finnish
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The Story
Original title: Puhdistus
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.
Written By
Marko Leino
Producer
Sofi Oksanen, Markus Selin
Cinematography
Rauno Ronkainen
Music
Tuomas Kantelinen
Editor
Kimmo Taavila
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
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