Holodomor - Bitter Harvest
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German title | Holodomor - Bitter Harvest |
Original title | Bitter Harvest |
Country of production | Canada |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 2017 |
length | 108 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 12 |
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Director | George Mendeluk |
script | Richard Bachynsky Hoover |
production | Richard Bachynsky Hoover George Mendeluk, Stuart Baird , Chad Barager , Jaye Gazeley , Ian Ihnatowycz |
music | Benjamin Wallfisch |
camera | Douglas Milsome |
cut | Stuart Baird, Lenka Svab |
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Holodomor - Angry Harvest (Original Title: Bitter Harvest ) is a Canadian film drama by Canadian director of Ukrainian origin George Mendeluk from the year 2017 . The film was shot in Ukraine .
action
In Bitter Harvest , two lovers, Yuri and Natalka, fight to survive the famine in Ukraine from 1932–1933 . In assessing the historical events, the film takes the position that the Holodomor is a genocide under Josef Stalin . Against this background, the young artist Yuri from a Ukrainian Cossack family struggles to survive hunger, arrests and torments and to save his lover Natalka from famine. After Yuri breaks out of a Soviet prison, he joins the anti-communist underground movement. There he works with Natalka on Ukraine's independence.
reception
While the Spiegel criticized the film under the headline "Bad Russians, good patrons", the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung replied that the film was not a cinematic top work, but at least it was the first film to attempt to educate a mass audience about the events and hopes that further work-up will follow.
Web links
- Holodomor - Angry Harvest in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Holodomor - Angry Harvest atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Holodomor - Angry Harvest atMetacritic(English)
- Holodomor - Bitter Harvest in the online movie database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Holodomor - Bitter Harvest . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Regina Mönch: "Holodomor: Bitter Harvest" Forgotten mass murder . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from April 3, 2017. Accessed August 1, 2017