premiering Friday, February 24, 2017-A new historical feature film about Ukraine's Holodomor, Bitter Harvest, a romantic-drama set in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930's
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Bitter Harvest follows two lovers, played by Irons and Barks, struggling to survive the Holodomor Soviet regime forced famine with their Cossack grain farmer families. Inspired by actual events, Bitter Harvest is set at the time of the Soviet famine of 1932–33. As Stalin attempts to build a strong and prosperous Soviet Union, a young artist born into a Ukrainian Cossack family named Yuri (Max Irons) fights to survive starvation, detainment and torment to spare his childhood sweetheart Natalka (Samantha Barks) from the Famine. Against this backdrop, Yuri escapes from a Soviet prison and joins the anti-Bolshevik resistance movement as he fights to rejoin with Natalka and proceed with the battle for a free Ukraine. (from Wikipedia)