Bitter Harvest (2017)
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. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.
Bitter Harvest (2017)
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Released Year: 2017
Runtime: 103 minutes
Directors: George Mendeluk
Writers: George Mendeluk
Casts: Barry Pepper, Paul Hickey, Terence Stamp, Tamer Hassan, Dominic Borrelli, Max Irons, Richard Brake, Jane Thorne, Rod Hunt, William Beck, Michael Jenn, Richard Ashton, Aneurin Barnard, Samantha Barks, Edward Akrout, Tom Austen, Gary Oliver, David G. Robinson, Denis Khoroshko, Marat Khairoullin, Lucy Brown, Nicholas Aaron, Jack Hollington, Malcolm Freeman, Joey Price, Kevin Hudson, Kathy Kiera Clarke, Adam McNamara, Jocasta Anderson, Tim Charles, Kane Ogieva, Rob Mitchell-James, Ostap Stupka
IMDB: Bitter Harvest (2017)
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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. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.
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Slant Magazine -
The film is an awkward mix of swashbuckling love story and polemic, painted in very broad strokes.
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Movie Nation -
Bitter Harvest never amounts to more than a colorful misfire, a picture with much of the pageant of the period, but little of the roiling passions that dominate politics in the Breadbasket of Europe, even today.
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Boston Globe -
As the film darkens, it intensifies its focus on tragedy and atrocity and begins to do some justice to one of the largest and least known genocides in history.
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The A.V. Club -
Even if it weren’t about an atrocity, this training-wheels Doctor Zhivago would still be lame.
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Village Voice -
A subject like the Holodomor demands something more than a TV-movie aesthetic and pitched battle scenes featuring a couple dozen combatants.
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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. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.
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. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.
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. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.
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. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union.