Based on the novel "Purge" by Sofi Oksanen
Zara is a young prostitute who manages to escape from the Russian mafia that has enslaved her. She hides herself in a lonely forest farm where her only Estonian relative Aliide lives. The story of these two women takes us back in time for several decades, telling about fatal love and jealousy, hatred and violence, war and deportation, betrayal and death. Inhuman conditions magnify inhuman behaviour, fixed ideas and hate. Even if the times have changed, violence is still there, in disguise.
Director: Antti J. Jokinen
Production Firm(s) | Taska Film, Solar Films (Finland) |
Color | color |
Sound | sound |
Film Category | Feature film, Full length feature |
Genre | Drama |
Text / Dialogue | Estonian, Finnish, Russian |
Duration | 125:00 |
Producer | Maria Avdjuško | Kristian Taska | Markus Selin | Jukka Helle |
Co-producer | Tor Johansson | Jesse Fryckman | Lone Korslund | Kristjan Rahu | Sofi Oksanen |
Director | Antti J. Jokinen |
Screenwriter | Marko Leino | Antti J. Jokinen |
Cinematographer | Rauno Ronkainen |
Art Director | Tiina Korpiola | Katrin Sipelgas |
Costume Designer | Anna Vilppunen | Eugen Tamberg |
Composer | Tuomas Kantelinen |
Sound Designer | Kirka Sainio |
Editor | Kimmo Taavila |
Writer of Adapted Work | Sofi Oksanen |
Aliide Truu (as a young woman)
Aliide Truu
Zara
Hans Pekk
Pasha
Ingel
Martin