Max Irons
Yuri
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Bitter Harvest is a film about the 1932–33 Holodomor, the man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine. It follows the story of a young artist who tries to save his family and his country from the Bolshevik terror.
Bitter Harvest is a film about the Holodomor, the famine-genocide of millions of Ukrainians in 1930s under Stalin's rule. It follows the love story of Yuri and Natalka, a young artist and a farmer, who struggle to survive and resist the communist terror.
- (4.2K)
- Drama, History, Romance
- George Mendeluk
- 2017-02-24
Feb 24, 2017 · 4 min read. 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.
Bitter Harvest is a 2017 film about the Holodomor, a famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932-1933. The film has mixed reviews from critics and audiences, who praise its historical significance but criticize its melodramatic and clichéd story.
- (61)
- George Mendeluk
- R
- Max Irons
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...
- 2 min
- 70.2K
- RoadsideFlix
Bitter Harvest is a 2017 Canadian film that depicts the love story of two young Ukrainians amid the Stalinist famine of the 1930s. The film is based on a true story and was produced by a Ukrainian-Canadian team with the support of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide.
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.
