Bitter Harvest

Bitter Harvest is a 2017 period romantic-drama film set in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1930s. The film is the first English language feature film depicting Ukraine's 1932/33 famine genocide Holodomor, a period of massive famines that killed millions of mostly ethnic Ukrainians. The film stars Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper, Tamer Hassan, Lucy Brown and Terence Stamp. The film was directed by George Mendeluk. The story and screenplay were written by Canadian screenwriter-actor Richard Bachynsky Hoover, based on his own Holodomor research. Filming took place in and around Kyiv, Ukraine, including the Pirohova original timber homes and churches heritage outdoor museum. Plot The Ukrainian Cossack, Ivan Kachaniuk, defends his family in Central Ukraine's Cherkashyna wheat and sunflower farming outskirts of Smila.