Bitter Harvest2017
Bitter Harvest (2017)
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Critic Consensus: Bitter Harvest lives down to its title with a clichéd wartime romance whose clumsy melodrama dishonors the victims of the real-life horrors it uses as a backdrop.
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as Yuri
as Natalka
as Yaroslav
as Sergei
as Ivan
as Young Yuri
as Young Natalka
as Vlodio
as Maria
as Irena
as Olena
as Mykola
as Taras
as Young Petro
as Baba Yaga
as Gregory Zinoziev
as Lev Kamenev
as Stalin
as Dmitri
as Father Ostapovich
as Ihor Boyko
as Oksana
as Older Petro
as Nikolao Bukharin
as Lazar Kaganovich
as Vlodio's Daughter #2
as Vlodio's Daughter #1
as Man On Train
as Starving Woman at Train Station
as Conductor #1
as Vorshilov
as Molotov
as Isak
as Professor Temchuk
as Conductor #2
as Professor Malishnikov
as Young Communist
as Soviet Officer
as Medved
as Prisoner
as Sergei's Mother
as Marko
as Young Lubko
as Stefan
as Yvegeniy
as Anton
as Grave Digger #1
as Grave Digger #2
as Varvara
as Gaunt Old Woman
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Despite the fact that it was a genocide that claimed millions of lives, the Holodomor is not particularly well known. Bitter Harvest is not the film to bring attention to it.
This is a story of villainous oppression, unfortunately told with oppressive earnestness.
It's not Zhivago. The big picture is drawn a little too hastily for that. But it is a rousing tale with political pertinence, given the current state of relations between Russia and the Ukraine.
The Cossack horseback action sequences are impressive, but there are too few shots of thundering hooves and too many scenes of stilted political discourse for this picture to take flight.
Bitter Harvest looks good, but it's a wasted opportunity to tell a story the world should not forget.
Almost inevitably, approaching the Holodomor via a standard-length dramatic feature risks reducing the cataclysm's enormity to a trivializing size and emotional impact.
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