Purga

Purga (1927) is a historical drama by Cheslav Sabinsky, adapted from Dmitri Shcheglov's play, that you can watch online on iFILM. Siberia, 1919: interventionist troops and an English expedition abandon the mines just as a blizzard sets in.

English engineer Henry and his fiancée Ollan, the company director's daughter, fall behind the others. After wandering through the snow, they reach the winter cabin of a Russian partisan named Vladimir and wait out the storm under his roof. In those days together Ollan sees her fiancé for what he is and warms to the steadier Vladimir. Spring brings a painful choice: stay with the man she loves in a foreign land, or go home. Gennady Michurin and Zoya Valevskaya lead the cast. Stream Purga online on iFILM.