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Based on one of the most overlooked tragedies of the 20th century, Bitter Harvest is a powerful story of love, honor, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin’s genocidal policies against Ukraine in the 1930s. As Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, a young artist named Yuri ( Max Irons ) battles to survive famine, imprisonment and torture to save his childhood sweetheart Natalka ( Samantha Barks ) from the “Holodomor,” the death‑by‑starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians. Against this tragic backdrop, Yuri escapes from a Soviet prison and joins the anti‑Bolshevik resistance movement as he battles to reunite with Natalka and continue the fight for a free Ukraine.
Original Release
02/23/2017
US Release
06/13/2017
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Samantha Barks | Natalka |
Tamer Hassan | Sergei |
Aneurin Barnard | Mykola |
Ostap Stupka | Boiko |
Tom Austen | Taras |
William Beck | Stefan |
Lucy Brown | Olena |
Denis Tarasov | Young Yuri |
Anastasiya Karpenko | Irena |
Igor Miroshnichenko | Young Petro |
Directors
Writers
George Mendeluk, Richard Bachynsky Hoover
Cast
Name | Character |
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Samantha Barks | Natalka |
Tamer Hassan | Sergei |
Aneurin Barnard | Mykola |
Ostap Stupka | Boiko |
Tom Austen | Taras |
William Beck | Stefan |
Lucy Brown | Olena |
Denis Tarasov | Young Yuri |
Anastasiya Karpenko | Irena |
Igor Miroshnichenko | Young Petro |
Valentina Zubchenko | Baba Yaga |
Tim Charles | Gregory Zinoviev |
William Key | Lev Kamenev |
Adam McNamara | Dmitri |
Richard Ashton | Father Ostapovich |
Valeriya Khodos | Oksana |
Rob Mitchell-James | Nikolai Bukharin |
Paul Hickey | Lazar Kaganovich |
Dylan Williams | Gareth Jones |
Vita Smachelyuk | Starving Woman at Train Station |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Richard Bachynsky Hoover | Executive Producer |
Dennis Davidson | Executive Producer |
Peter D. Graves | Executive Producer |
Rudy Ruggiero | Executive Producer |
Olena Chernova | Producer |
George Mendeluk | Producer |
Chad Barager | Producer |
Jaye Gazeley | Producer |
Tamer Hasan | Producer |
Ian Ihnatowycz | Producer |
Roman Kindrachuk | Producer |
Marshall Leviten | Producer |
James Joseph McDonald | Producer |
Valerie Phil | Producer |
Darko Skulsky | Producer |
Camilla Storey | Producer |
Stuart Baird | Producer |