| Purge | |
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| Directed by | Antti Jokinen |
| Written by | Marko Leino Antti Jokinen |
| Produced by | Markus Selin |
| Starring | Laura Birn |
| Cinematography | Rauno Ronkainen |
| Edited by | Kimmo Taavila |
| Music by | Tuomas Kantelinen |
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Running time | 125 minutes |
| Country | Finland |
| Language | Finnish |
Purge (Finnish:Puhdistus) is a 2012 Finnishdrama film directed byAntti Jokinen, based on the novel of thesame name bySofi Oksanen. The film was selected as the Finnish entry for theBest Foreign Language Oscar at the85th Academy Awards, but it did not make it to the final shortlist.[1] At the 2013Jussi Award, the film received eight nominations, including Best Film, Best Direction and Best Costume Design. It won Best Actress for Birn, Best Supporting Actress for Liisi Tandefelt, along with Best Cinematography, Best Sound Design and Best Make-Up Design. Birn was also nominated for theSatellite Award for Best Actress.
The exhausted Zara (Amanda Pilke) escapes Russian human traffickers that smuggled her from Russia to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, under the pretext of working at a hotel. There, beaten and raped, she provides sexual services to gangster clients. After escaping, she goes to the home of an older woman, Aliide (Lisia Tandefelt), where she finds shelter. Two seemingly different women combine not only similar painful experiences, but also blood ties. The girl's experiences mean that the old woman must re-evaluate her life, full of suffering, sacrifice and unrequited love.