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An emotive and powerful drama, Bitter Harvest 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.

Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, the film conveys the untold story of the Holodomor (the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin) through the eyes of Yuri, a young Ukrainian and his childhood sweetheart Natalka.

With an exceptional cast of established and rising stars, the film epically recreates the violent conflict, loss and famine of one of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes in the history of 20th Century Europe.