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Bitter Harvest

The life of Yuri, a young courageous artist, who after knowing that Stalin prepares for getting rid of Ukrainian through the policy of Holodomore, a program that is set to make people die from starvation, has been turned upside down, as he goes in a dangerous mission to save his lover.
Keywords:  #Aneurin Barnard #Bitter Harvest #George Mendeluk #Max Irons #Samantha Barks #Terence Stamp
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Tom Long
Detroit News
February 24, 2017
This is a shameful piece of history that deserves a far better film.
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Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
March 01, 2017
It's not Zhivago. The big picture is drawn a little too hastily for that. But it is a rousing tale with political pertinence, given the current state of relations between Russia and the Ukraine.
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Rain Jokinen
SFist
March 23, 2017
The film's use of English-speaking actors, digital cinematography, and simple sets gives it all a cheap, made-for-cable movie feel.
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Godfrey Cheshire
RogerEbert.com
February 24, 2017
Almost inevitably, approaching the Holodomor via a standard-length dramatic feature risks reducing the cataclysm's enormity to a trivializing size and emotional impact.
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Daniel Barnes
Sacramento News & Review
March 02, 2017
It seems like Mendeluk and his writer Richard Bachynsky Hoover were striving for something sweeping and old-fashioned, but the end result is claustrophobic and comically out-of-touch.
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Sheri Linden
Los Angeles Times
February 23, 2017
Given the scope of the early-1930s atrocity, the most shocking thing about director George Mendeluk's new dramatization is how utterly devoid of emotional impact it is.
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Chris Knight
National Post
March 02, 2017
The story of the Holodomor is an important one, but Bitter Harvest plasters over the dark history with all manner of movie shortcuts.
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Peter Debruge
Variety
February 23, 2017
While "Bitter Harvest" will undoubtedly serve to raise awareness, there can be no doubt that the events deserve a more compelling and responsible treatment than this.
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Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
February 23, 2017
The millions who died during this real-life tragedy deserve a stronger memorial than this one.
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Ken Eisner
Georgia Straight
March 01, 2017
In reality, more than seven million people likely died on Stalin's orders. (The final numbers remain unknown.) Don't they deserve a better epitaph than this?
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S. Jhoanna Robledo
Common Sense Media
March 07, 2017
Disappointing drama shows brutal historical violence.
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Brad Wheeler
Globe and Mail
March 03, 2017
This is a story of villainous oppression, unfortunately told with oppressive earnestness.
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