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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 1932–33 famine genocide, Holodomor , a period of massive famines the Soviet Union leader Stalin engineered that starved to death millions of mostly ethnic Ukrainians.
- US$5 million approx. (worldwide sales)
- February 24, 2017 (United States)
- US$21,000,000
- Benjamin Wallfisch
Feb 24, 2017 · Powered by JustWatch. 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.
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.
- (4.1K)
- Drama, History, Romance
- George Mendeluk
- 2017-02-24
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Feb 23, 2017 · Max Irons and Samantha Barks star in 'Bitter Harvest,' George Mendeluk's historical drama about Stalin's forced starvation of Ukraine in the 1930s.
Director, Writer. Richard Bachynsky Hoover. Screenplay, Story. Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, Bitter Harvest conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin.
Feb 23, 2017 · Feb 23, 2017 3:42pm PT. Film Review: ‘Bitter Harvest’. A historical epic intended to draw attention to the Holodomor — or Soviet starvation of Ukraine in the 1930s — bogs down in failed...
