Holodomor - Bitter Harvest

Movie
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
Rod
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
occupation
	Max Irons : Yuri; Samantha Barks : Natalka; Barry Pepper : Yaroslaw; Tamer Hassan : Sergiy; Terence Stamp : Iwan, Yaroslav's father;

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

Individual evidence

[FSK-1] Release certificate for Holodomor - Bitter Harvest . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).

[2] Regina Mönch: "Holodomor: Bitter Harvest" Forgotten mass murder . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from April 3, 2017. Accessed August 1, 2017