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Bitter Harvest is a 2017 period romantic-drama film set in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s. The film is the first English language feature film depicting Ukraine's man-made famine, the 1932–33 Holodomor. The film stars Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, Tamer Hassan, Lucy Brown and Terence Stamp . The film was directed by George Mendeluk.
Feb 24, 2017 · Bitter Harvest: Directed by George Mendeluk. With Samantha Barks, Tamer Hassan, Aneurin Barnard, Ostap Stupka. Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.
Feb 24, 2017 · Bitter Harvest. If movies were rated according to the importance of their subject matter, then George Mendeluk ’s “Bitter Harvest,” which tells of the devastating famine Josef Stalin visited on the Ukraine in the 1930s, would deserve an unqualified four stars. If the same film were judged solely on its cinematic quality, though, it would ...
R 1 hr 43 min Feb 24th, 2017 War, Drama, Romance, History. Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the ...
Oct 27, 2016 · Based on one of the most overlooked tragedies of the 20th Century, BITTER HARVEST is a powerful story of love, honor, rebellion and survival as seen through ...
Bitter Harvest is not the film to bring attention to it. Dec 8, 2017 Full Review Brad Wheeler Globe and Mail This is a story of villainous oppression, unfortunately told with oppressive earnestness.
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Based on one of the most overlooked tragedies of the 20th Century, "Bitter Harvest" is a powerful story of love, honor, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin’s genocidal policies against Ukraine in the 1930s. As Stalin advances the ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union, a young artist named Yuri (Max Irons) battles to survive famine, imprisonment and torture to save his childhood sweetheart Natalka (Samantha Barks ...
