Purge

Purge (Puhdistus, 2012) can be watched online on iFILM — a Finnish-Estonian historical drama directed by Antti J. Jokinen, adapted from Sofi Oksanen's novel that landed the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and the Finlandia Award. Two women, two eras, one country under occupation.

Aliide (Liisi Tandefelt) is an elderly Estonian woman living alone, her history tangled in Stalin's purges and the deportation of Estonians to Siberia. One night in 1992, Zara (Laura Birn) appears at her door — a young woman who has just broken free from the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Both survivors. Different decades, same broken world.

As their stories converge, decades of family deception and complicity are pulled into the light. Oksanen's source novel reached 45 languages and reshaped how world literature talks about the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states. Jokinen's film matches that unsparing quality: no comfort, no easy arc. Stream Purge online on iFILM.