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Inspired by actual events, Bitter Harvest follows two lovers, played by Irons and Barks, struggling with their kurkul grain farmer families to survive as Joseph Stalin's collectivisation campaign and purge of the independent grain farmers and their property and other crops is confiscated by Stalin's Red Army and henchmen in the Soviet Ukraine during the Soviet famine of 1932–33 that claimed millions of Ukrainian lives and hundreds of thousands of Kulak and anti communist resistors deported to Siberia slave camps and Gulags and executed en masse for nationalism and trumped up charges. Yuri, an artist from a family of revolutionaries, slowly becomes entangled with the anti-Bolshevik resistance at school in Kiev after an escape from prison, while his family and childhood sweetheart Natalka are crushed by Stalin's policies at home. He must race to defeat Commissar Sergei on his family farm – now a collective farm.

• Max Irons as Yuri
• Samantha Barks as Natalka
• Barry Pepper as Yaroslav
• Tamer Hassan as Sergei
• Terence Stamp as Ivan
• Aneurin Barnard as Mykola
• Tom Austen as Taras
• Richard Brake as Medved
• Gary Oliver as Joseph Stalin

Ukrainian Canadian screenwriter Richard Bachynsky Hoover conceived the idea for the film during a 1999 visit to Ukraine. During his subsequent research into his heritage, which included a 2004 visit to Kiev during the Orange Revolution, he learned that the Holodomor had yet to be dramatized in a film. In 2008, Bachynsky Hoover sought financing for such a film from the Ukrainian Government and various Ukrainian oligarchs, who were not interested. In 2011, he approached fellow Ukrainian Canadian investor Ian Ihnatowycz, who committed to financing the $21 million film in its entirety.

The film was originally titled The Devil's Harvest. Filmed on location in Ukraine, the film's cast includes Barry Pepper, Tamer Hassan and Terence Stamp. In his attempt to help uncover certain parts of Kremlin history, producer Ian Ihnatowycz stated, "Given the importance of the Holodomor, and that few outside Ukraine knew about this man-made famine because it had been covered up by the Kremlin regime, this chapter of history needed to be told in English on the silver screen for the first time in feature film history."

Filming began in Ukraine by November 15, 2013. On February 5, 2014, Variety reported that the shoot had just ended in Kiev. Several local crew took part in the simultaneously held Euromaidan demonstrations and deadly Revolution of Dignity .The Screenwriter Executive Producer himself Richard Bachynsky Hoover participated and assisted carrying a 20 year old boy shot in the knee ,down Kreshstik street to a State Radio station makeshift medic set up and helped others carry a stretcher with a Lviv city murdered protester to rest with 8 others in Maidan square .He also volunteered as a Canadian Ukrainian descent protester who also had a then 5 year old son born in Smila Ukraine ( depicted in the film as a tribute to his son and relatives ) named Yevhen .The screen writer executive producer was interviewed in Kievs Maidan Revolution Live by Canadas CBC National News on ground reporter Susan Ormistan (See video interview archive, visit Google ( CBC A Front Row Seat Crisis in Ukraine) as he was carrying a Canadian flag to show support and was fighting for Ukraine's dignity in the Maidan revolution front lines while witnessing the atrocious murders by the violent government snipers shooting initiated by then president Yanukoviches corrupt police and Berkut forces shooting close to him under the Institutska bridge. Fifty meters ahead of him he witnessed firdt hand the fearless Ukrainian brithers and sisters in arms moving to push back the aggresive Yanukovich heavily armed government killing forces as many were badly wounded and dying and dropping dead trying to survive the onslaught as so many were killed by shots through their thin helmets and their shields in the heart while medics assisting were also being shot at, helping the 100 or more innocent brave Ukrainian heros known as the Heavenly hundred who stopped at literally nothing with very little protection except wooden homemade clubs moving up the Institutska street hill against Ukraines then ex.president Victor Yanukoviches many hundreds of corrupt heavenly armed police and Berkut forces. Extreme violents took place all winter as so many innocent protesters were tortured and murdered and kidnapped by police Berkut and Titushi thugs assisting them . The films Screenwriter Executive producer would take calls when needed on the cell phone in Kiev Maidan's heavily makeshift barricaded fortress to communicate with the films main Toronto producer while joining the fight as his dream script and first ever film he arranged to be produced was filming and in full swing in the Kiev region which was kept very low key and under wraps by the Producers orders and film makers regarding Stalins Holodomor genocide theme as Putins pro Russian ally Ukraines Ex.president Victor Yanukovich regime opposed the Holodomor to be publicized. Even books on the genocidal Holodomor topic were removed from many Ukraine state libraries as well to keep Putin and his regime satisfied as its been widley speculated. .

In early 2014, post-production continued at London's Pinewood Studios, using the official James Bond filming tank for under-water filming. Skyfall editor Stuart Baird and SFX teams worked on the film in post production.

The film was acquired by Roadside Attractions for a 1st quarter 2017 US release. Roadside Attractions released the film in the US on February 24, 2017. "D" Films Canada will launch Bitter Harvest on March 3 in Canada as well as many other film distributors who have bought the rights for the film in major countries globally who will also launch the film during the first quarter of 2017.

Box office

The final US box office sales were $557,241. Its widest release was in 127 theaters.

Critical response

Bitter Harvest received generally negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 13% 'rotten' approval rating, based on 55 reviews. The consensus states, "Bitter Harvest lives down to its title with a clichéd wartime romance whose clumsy melodrama dishonors the victims of the real-life horrors it uses as a backdrop" Sheri Linden of the Los Angeles Times called the film "utterly devoid of emotional impact". Several reviews agreed that the film would raise awareness but did not do justice to the subject matter, with Peter Debruge of Variety stating that "there can be no doubt that the events deserve a more compelling and responsible treatment than this." The Sydney Morning Herald called the film "a rousing tale with political pertinence", and George Weigel of the National Review wrote that "the film, while perhaps not great cinema, succeeds in personalizing the Holodomor and reminding us that this genocide happened".

Michael O'Sullivan wrote for The Washington Post, "The Holodomor – an early 1930s famine in which millions of people in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, are said to have died when their foodstuffs were confiscated by the central Soviet government under Joseph Stalin – could have made for a tale of great, stirring tragedy on the silver screen. 'Bitter Harvest,' alas, is not that movie." The Ukrainian American Coordinating Council (UACC) criticized O'Sullivan's review for seeming to deny that the Holodomor was a man-made famine; The Washington Post later posted an editor's note clarifying that the Holodomor was "an act of genocide", and parts of the review were re-written.

Among more positive reviews, Adrian Bryttan of The Ukrainian Weekly praised the film: "Director George Mendeluk is first and foremost a master storyteller, breathing vivid life into the nuanced characters in his epic-romance ... Richly layered and rewarding repeated viewings, Bitter Harvest is the world-class Ukrainian art film of our time."

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