Bitter Harvest (2017 film)
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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. The film stars Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, Tamer Hassan, Lucy Brown and Terence Stamp.
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Directed by | George Mendeluk |
Screenplay by | Richard Bachynsky Hoover |
Story by | Richard Bachynsky Hoover |
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Cinematography | Douglas Milsome |
Edited by | Stuart Baird Lenka Svab |
Music by | Benjamin Wallfisch |
Distributed by | Roadside Attractions (US) D Films (Canada) |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
Countries | Canada United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | $21 million[1] |
Box office | $5 million approx. (worldwide sales)[2] |
The film was directed by George Mendeluk. The story and screenplay were written by Canadian screenwriter-actor Richard Bachynsky Hoover, based on his own Holodomor research. Filming took place in and around Kyiv, Ukraine, including the Pirohova original timber homes and church heritage outdoor museum.