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Bitter Harvest

  • 20172017
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  • 1h 43m
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5.9/10
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Max Irons and Samantha Barks in Bitter Harvest (2017)
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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 t... Read allSet 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.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.
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    • George Mendeluk
    • Richard Bachynsky Hoover(screenplay)
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    • Max Irons
    • Samantha Barks
    • Terence Stamp
    • George Mendeluk
    • Richard Bachynsky Hoover(screenplay)
    • George Mendeluk(screenplay)
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    • Max Irons
    • Samantha Barks
    • Terence Stamp
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    • 34Metascore
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    Max Irons and Samantha Barks in Bitter Harvest (2017)
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    Max Irons
    Max Irons
    • Yuri
    Samantha Barks
    Samantha Barks
    • Natalka
    Terence Stamp
    Terence Stamp
    • Ivan
    Barry Pepper
    Barry Pepper
    • Yaroslav
    Tamer Hassan
    Tamer Hassan
    • Sergei
    Aneurin Barnard
    Aneurin Barnard
    • Mykola
    Ostap Stupka
    Ostap Stupka
    • Boiko
    Tom Austen
    Tom Austen
    • Taras
    William Beck
    William Beck
    • Stefan
    Lucy Brown
    Lucy Brown
    • Olena
    Denis Tarasov
    • Young Yuri
    Bondareva Lena B. Vysotskogo
    • Maria
    Anastasiya Karpenko
    • Irena
    • (as Anastasia Karpenko)
    Igor Miroshnichenko
    • Young Petro
    Valentina Zubchenko
    • Baba Yaga
    Tim Charles
    Tim Charles
    • Gregory Zinoviev
    William Key
    • Lev Kamenev
    Adam McNamara
    Adam McNamara
    • Dmitri
      • George Mendeluk
      • Richard Bachynsky Hoover(screenplay) (story)
      • George Mendeluk(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Max Irons and Aneurrin Barnard played brothers Edward IV and Richard III, respectively in The White Queen (2013)
    • Quotes

      [Last spoken lines, repeated line]

      Yuri: [Voice over] My name is Yuri Kachanyuk, the son of Yaroslav Kachanyuk and the grandson of the famous warrior Ivan Kachanyuk. Before I grew up and learned that the dragons were real and evil roamed the world. I fell in love.

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      Wedding March
      Music by Anatoliy Mamalyga and Iryna Orlova

      Performed by Olha Chornokondratenko (Violin); Vadym Chornokondratenko (Tambourine)

      Courtesy of Andamar Entertainment Inc.

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    9/10
    Stalin- not Hitler for a welcome change
    The Communists starved the Ukrainians under Stalin. The New York Times via Walter Duranty, covered up their crimes. Bitter Harvest is a fictional action- drama based on one man's story that lived through it. Now, finally a movie that is not about Hitler (national socialism) but about the real threat America faces from the left- International socialism ( communism) - still being covered up by the same lying media. Walter Duranty is best known for his stringent denial of the genocide of the Ukrainian people, known as Holodomor. Duranty refused to report on the man-made famine that killed up to twelve million people. Duranty also claimed other journalists who reported the truth of the USSR, such as Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones, were liars. Muggeridge went on to call Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism." Some of Duranty's most well known lies and falsehoods about Holodomor are: "There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be." --New York Times, Nov. 15, 1931, page 1 "Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda." --New York Times, August 23, 1933 "Enemies and foreign critics can say what they please. Weaklings and despondents at home may groan under the burden, but the youth and strength of the Russian people is essentially at one with the Kremlin's program, believes it worthwhile and supports it, however hard be the sledding." --New York Times, December 9, 1932, page 6 "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." --New York Times, May 14, 1933, page 18 "There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition." --New York Times, March 31, 1933, page 13 Duranty also admitted privately that the genocide was happening. Bruce S. Thornton wrote: Walter Duranty stands as perhaps the quintessential fellow-traveler, killing news reports of famine and writing that Ukrainians were "healthier and more cheerful" than he had expected, and that markets were overflowing with food—this at the height of Stalin's slaughter of the kulaks.
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      • February 24, 2017 (United States)
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