PURGE
What do people do
when they have no wings?
People run and escape
as long as they have the strength.
When they no longer have strength,
they try to hide.
But not everyone
can run fast enough.
Or find a good enough hiding place.
That's why you have to be alert -
and stay completely still.
You're quicker than me.
You wanted to be part of my skin
like a mole or a liver spot -
or dirt,
but you're nothing but filth!
They put goddamn bait out there.
If you're goddamn bait,
you came to the wrong house.
No. Stop.
Do I have to call a doctor?
- No. No doctor.
I'm alright.
You don't seem alright.
Don't go anywhere or
I'll call the police. - No police.
I haven't done anything.
- Why were you lying there?
Where did you come from?
- From Tallinn.
He hit me and I ran away.
Who hit you?
- My man. Pasa.
Is he looking for you?
You sure you don't
want me to call the police?
I'll leave soon.
Where? Looking like that?
Are you hungry?
Come.
We'll find you something.
Speaking of work,
what kind of a uniform is that?
I waitressed at a hotel, but I quit.
That must've been
one hell of a fine hotel.
What the fuck is that smell?
You and you. Get out. Quick.
Quick. Get in the car.
These are the girls?
- Yeah.
Damn Oksanka.
They sat a week on the train
and 24 hours in the car.
Get in.
- Go.
No way.
- Get in the car.
If you behave, -
I'll let you sit in the back
before we get to Germany.
This is it.
Put your stuff in the corner.
Follow me.
This is the hotel?
We'll clean and waitress here?
No way.
Fuck!
You owe me.
Once you've paid,
you can go. - I don't have money.
You'll work and pay off your debt.
The more you work,
the sooner you'll pay it off.
What work? - You'll do
the kind of work that pays.
I own you.
I'll add your clothes, -
room and board
and training to your debt.
You'll pay for everything.
This didn't start off well.
I'll have to add
300 marks to your debt -
for acting stupid.
You fucking idiot!
You'll learn to whore. They all do.
To Aliide from your sister, 1941.
Koluvere village.
Have you lived here long?
Always.
You live alone?
Yes.
Why do you ask so many questions?
Maybe you're bait after all.
What?
- No use pretending.
You're here to rob me.
You and your man Pasa.
You're a mafioso's wife.
Or a businessman's,
as they call them nowadays.
He's a smart man.
Sent bait that's in bad shape.
Who wouldn't help
a poor girl like you?
I better send you away right now.
I'm not a thief.
Pasa mustn't find me.
Let me stay until morning.
I asked because
I saw your engagement ring.
Martin died ages ago.
How did he die?
He died of bitterness.
Why was he bitter?
You're so young
you wouldn't understand.
I think my mom is going to die
of the same thing.
Martin was a good communist.
And so am I.
Isn't Estonia free and independent?
- Crap!
They'll come back. They always do.
Who?
I'm a good communist.
Is that why they wrote "Russkie"
on your window?
Why is your mother bitter?
I don't know.
She never talks about anything.
She is practically mute.
My grandma said my mom
got scared of a bomb as a kid.
What's your mom's name?
Linda.
What was your grandma's name?
Ingel. She's still alive.
I'll go get firewood from the shed.
Don't you dare touch anything.
Goddammit!
Stop. - I want to cut my hair short
and get an electrical perm.
It costs two kroons.
- Liide, that's silly.
Besides,
it wouldn't look good on you.
Yeah, because I'm not that pretty.
- I didn't mean that.
Soon you'll have to drive
suitors away.
Guess what?
I'm sure something good
is going to happen this summer.
How come? - I found
a lilac with five petals.
I ate it.
Don't laugh.
I ate it the right way.
The prediction can't go wrong.
Liide, hurry.
I wish he'd look at me.
Can you do me a favor?
What?
Watch him when he's with me.
Watch his face and -
look at the way he looks at me
to see if he's in love.
He is. You can see it from afar.
True.
But see if he looks at others
or if he just sees me.
I'm sure he sees
something else as well.
But there's no doubt
he's crazy about you.
I'll go help Mother
with the laundry.
Ingel was lucky she saw him first.
She wasn't the first who saw him.
What did you say?
It'll be nice to have
a young man around the house.
May I have this dance?
Friends, my dear wife,
daughter and son-in-law.
How a mother feels in her heart
when her daughter gets married -
is something only she knows.
Women know it
and so will you.
They're taking Mother and Father.
Where's our mother and father?
They were sent where
enemies of the people belong.
Where?
From now on the crops from your
field belong to the state.
Ingel. Ingel.
Say something.
What are we going to do?
What if they take us?
They've taken so many. - No.
We'll always stick together.
What about Mother and Father?
They'll come back.
Why don't we go to Finland
while we still can.
Or Sweden would be even better.
- I won't leave my home.
The West will come and help us.
Besides, Hans will move in.
I didn't dare tell you before.
I'm pregnant.
Goddammit.
Goddammit!
Liide.
I know you've been
very worried about Ingel, but -
it's over now.
Come on in.
It's a girl.
We'll call her Linda.
After Mother.
What's with her?
- She was really nervous for you.
I found her in the shed, praying
that everything will go well.
What photo is that?
- It fell from under the wallpaper.
You're in it. It says "To Aliide
from your sister." - Bullshit.
I don't have a sister.
If you're Aliide,
who's the other girl?
They called her an enemy of
the people. - You mean your sister?
I don't have a sister.
The girl in the photo
was a thief and a traitor.
What did she do?
She stole crops from the kolkhoz,
was arrested and taken away.
She stole from the people.
Like the exploiters do.
Crops? Why didn't she steal
something more valuable?
Sounds like she was hungry.
Not evil.
You don't know
what you're talking about.
Isn't it time to calm down?
Around here
guests either calm down or leave.
I don't believe you.
Where did she steal from?
From the field.
You can see it from the window.
Why are you interested
in what the thief did?
Your sister stole
from her own field!
The field belonged to the kolkhoz.
Before it was hers. - Before
this house belonged to fascists.
You said you've always lived here.
That makes you a fascist.
Don't get me confused
with your ravings!
I was a good communist
and so was Martin!
Why did you stay
when your sister was taken away?
Didn't that make you unreliable?
- I've always done what I had to.
We both should get some sleep.
You can sleep in the little bedroom.
I'll sleep here.
I'll lock your door
so that you don't get any ideas.
I don't care. I'm used to sleeping
behind locked doors.
Can you leave the light on?
- Why?
If I wake up,
I want to see where I am.
There's nothing to be afraid of.
They'll come. - How would
they find their way here?
They always come. At night.
- Who?
Men.
- Bullshit!
We'll never get home.
- Our debt will be paid off soon.
I don't think so.
We've been here over six months.
- Six months closer to freedom.
My clients stink.
They only try to hurt me.
I wanna die.
- Katia. Listen.
We'll get out of here.
- No, we won't.
The debt is just an excuse
to keep us from killing ourselves.
He wants you.
Put on the dog collar and the leash.
It's the pervert.
I can go.
Katia's sick; she has her period.
He wants Katia.
- It's okay. I'll come.
Give me two of those fuckin' pills.
Zara, you want some?
Zara. Zara. Zara...
I heard you wanna go home.
Get onstage.
Take your clothes off.
Make it quick.
You'll be a big star tonight.
Get on all fours.
Turn your ass to me.
Spread your legs.
More.
Turn this way.
Rub your pussy.
I'm sure you understand
what I'll do with the photos -
if you mess with me?
Please. Don't.
We'll send them to your grandma.
And to your parents.
And then to your boyfriend.
Why?
- I'll be back.
As soon as I can.
You're strong!
Keep Ingel happy so that
she doesn't worry about me.
You're a good sister,
always helping her.
Do you really have to go?
This time we'll drive
the Russkies away alone.
So far away they won't find
their way back. That's all.
Alright.
They're here for us.
You won't get me out of here alive.
It's Hans.
Berg and I left the Germans -
and went to Finland and
signed up for their army.
We came home by boat last night.
We parted just in case and
I walked here through the woods.
Why didn't you write us?
We were worried.
It's good you didn't write.
The less there's black on white
about you, the better.
I'm sure you also understand that.
We have to hide you
or the Russians will kill you.
Liide.
I'll join the Forest Brothers.
We'll drive them... - Bullshit.
We can build a windowless
hiding place in the little bedroom.
I won't hide in my own country.
- Can't you see what's going on?
Berg says...
- He doesn't know anything.
Hundreds have been killed
and thousands taken to Siberia.
I hope he's smart enough
to stay in hiding.
Is he back?
Nobody knows.
Liide is right.
My duty is to defend
my country and us.
Please stay in hiding.
At least for a week.
What is it?
- Have you seen Hans?
He hasn't been home
since you all left.
We took the same boat back
a week ago. - Haven't seen him, huh?
Tell him we're gathering troops.
- We need him.
Let's go.
Where are you going?
- To seize the town hall.
You and five others?
You're crazy.
They'll kill you.
No, they won't.
Let's not tell Hans.
He'd just run after them.
Whatever happens to them,
the militia will search every house.
Hans has to run away
into the forest.
If the boys die, we're the only
ones who know Hans is alive.
Die.
Seven Forest Brothers attacked us.
Find the missing one.
Calm down. I'll do the talking.
What if they threaten us
with a gun? - Then they will.
What?
- Let me take care of this.
What if they ask Linda?
- She'll be in hiding. Calm down.
Hello.
- Hello.
Would you like tea?
- No thank you.
Hans Pekk.
Where is he?
He's dead.
He left with Berg
in the winter two years ago.
Berg came back alone.
He said Hans was dead.
It was a robbery homicide.
Robbery homicide?
Where?
That's what Berg said.
Ask him what happened.
We don't know anything.
The only things we know are hearsay.
Ingel and Linda
are crushed with sorrow.
Jaan Berg is dead.
Oh.
You want tea or not?
Hell no.
- Yes.
In order to live
you have to be dead. You get it?
It won't take forever. The West
will help us. - I have to do this.
Try to understand. It's my duty.
- It was also Berg's duty.
And he's dead.
You can't keep running into
the forest. - They won't catch us.
We're getting organized and we have
more guns. - Dead men can't shoot.
You have to stay
in the house at all times.
Be with Ingel.
If someone sees you, Ingel
and Linda will die immediately.
Good.
We have to arrange things.
We'll build a wall here.
We'll put the bed next to it.
We'll make a hatch
and put a cabinet in front of it.
It'll be warm. And we can
let people in the house.
But we won't tell Linda about this.
You can come out at night to bathe
and eat when she's asleep.
If she wakes up, we'll tell her
you came to visit from the forest.
The closet is so far away
from the other rooms -
that we won't hear anything.
We'll put curtains on the windows
so that no one can see inside.
From now on I'll sleep here.
Do you know where Ingel was taken?
Comrade Aliide Tamm,
where's Hans Pekk?
He's dead.
Are you sure Hans Pekk
wouldn't tell your whereabouts -
if he was sitting in your place?
- Hans Pekk is dead.
He was robbed and murdered.
Are you absolutely sure?
Comrade Aliide,
you know what I think?
I think you were conned
into helping criminals -
and the criminals are so skilled -
they got
your innocent head confused.
I ask you to save yourself.
Where's Hans Pekk?
He's dead. - Tell me where the body
is and we can end this discussion.
Ingel would like
to know that as well.
She'd like to bury her husband,
the father of her child, -
in a church cemetery.
Why haven't we seen you at the
Estonian Communist Party events?
Don't you believe
in the Soviet system?
Don't you believe in communism?
You haven't been brainwashed into
fascism like your sister, have you?
Remember that we all feel fear.
We all make mistakes,
Comrade Aliide.
What did they want to know?
- About Hans. I didn't say anything.
What shall we tell Hans? - That
they asked about Hendrik Ristla.
That he got away when Berg
and the others were killed.
What if they interrogate us again?
We did alright, didn't we?
We'll do alright
if it happens again.
What if they ask Linda?
- She won't talk.
She knows that
her dad will die if she does.
Look at me.
Girl, goddammit.
What's in the basket?
Mushrooms.
You took food
to the bandits in the forest.
No, I didn't.
I was picking mushrooms.
Right.
Comrade Aliide,
you're a disappointment.
Look at me.
I've done everything I can
to help you.
There's nothing more I can do.
I'm not here. I'm not here...
I'm not here.
Socks.
My socks. My socks.
Grey socks.
Dark brown socks.
Black socks. Knee socks.
Ankle socks. Silk socks.
Children's socks.
My socks.
Liide.
What happened?
Burn my clothes.
I didn't tell them anything.
But they always come.
Again and again.
Should we send Linda away?
Hans would become suspicious.
We can't let him become suspicious.
Not a word to Hans.
Not a word.
What did you do to your hair?
We would've found a way
to color your hair.
I'll go make coffee.
I won't be able
to get back to sleep anyway.
The sun will be up soon.
I'll try to find a scarf
you can wrap around your hair.
And some clothes.
- It doesn't matter.
I need to get to Tallinn
as soon as possible.
I need a ride.
- I don't have a car.
I'm sure someone in the village has.
Can you call someone?
I don't have a phone.
- Why not?
I don't have anyone to call.
What if somebody
wants to call you?
Are you lonely?
I've always been alone.
But you had a husband.
You don't understand anything.
- About what?
About anything.
And your questions bring back
memories I've wanted to forget.
What kind of memories?
They're here.
- Who? - The men.
Everything's alright. Let's go.
Open it.
Go check the shed.
What is this?
- Get in there. Quick.