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.
Release Date | September 7, 2012 | |
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Status | Released | |
Original Title | Puhdistus | |
Runtime | 2h 5min | |
Budget | $3,100,000 | |
Revenue | — | |
Language | Finnish | |
Original Language | Finnish | |
Production Countries | Estonia, Finland | |
Production Companies | Solar FilmsTaska Film |