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Bitter Harvest

2017

George Mendeluk

Barry Pepper, Max Irons, Richard Brake, Tom Austen ...

4.8

109

Drama. Romance. War Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, BITTER HARVEST conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union. With an exceptional cast of established and rising stars, the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"A historical epic intended to draw attention to the Holodomor - or Soviet starvation of Ukraine in the 1930s - bogs down in failed romance."	NEG
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"A clunky lesson in Ukrainian history (...) Politics, romance, faith and famine are mashed into a single misshapen meatball"	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"Hasn't Ukraine suffered enough? (...) Noble intentions are defeated by inept execution"	NEG
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"There have been more than a few bad movies about the Holocaust; perhaps we were long overdue for a bad movie about the Holodomor"	NEG
United Kingdom	Leslie Felperin The Guardian	"Despite honourable intentions, this film addressing the Stalin-inflicted 1932-33 genocide in Ukraine is at times embarrassingly bad (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"An epic monstrosity that’s so bad it’s almost unmissable (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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