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Sneak Peek: Bitter Harvest

By randyniles
February 25, 2017
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Based on one of the most overlooked tragedies of the 20th century, Bitter Harvest is a powerful story of love, honor, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin’s genocidal policies against Ukraine in the 1930s. As Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, a young artist named Yuri (Max Irons) battles to survive famine, imprisonment and torture to save his childhood sweetheart Natalka (Samantha Barks) from the “Holodomor,” the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians. Against this tragic backdrop, Yuri escapes from a Soviet prison and joins the anti-Bolshevik resistance movement as he battles to reunite with Natalka and continue the fight for a free Ukraine.

Filmed on location in Ukraine, this epic love story brings to light one of the most devastating chapters of modern Europe.

Starring: Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, Tamer Hassan, and Terence Stamp
Directed by: George Mendeluk
Written by: Richard Bachynsky-Hoover and George Mendeluk
Story by: Richard Bachynsky-Hoover
Produced by: Ian Ihnatowycz, Stuart Baird, George Mendeluk, Chad Barager, and Jaye Gazeley
Distributor: Roadside Attractions

Release Date: February 24, 2017
Runtime: 103 minutes
Rated R

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