Plot Summary
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. Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia who held her as a sex slave. Aliide and Zara engage in a complex arithmetic of suspicion and revelation to distill each other’s motives. Gradually, their stories emerge, with the culmination of a tragic family drama of rivalry, lust, and loss.
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Customer Reviews
Purge as in Redemption
4.5 Marvelous Finnish work of cinema. Terrific moral tale set modern and historic. A span of three long generations of Estonia horror under Stalin terror until today's horrific sex trafficking linked in a brilliant story of sisters, lovers, criminality and inhumanity.
Frank and graphic in violent sex. Profound moral dilemmas confronted for survival.
Guilt, shame, desperation by human spirits embodied in full characters who are emblematic of humans across the world and throughout modern times.
I would say this is important cinema, also. Remarkable filmmaking from Finland.
Excellent camera, editing, scoring and writing.
Well done. A strong performance by all actresses. Purge is a perfect title.
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