Shedding light on a little-known World War II genocide...
“Bitter Harvest” is set in the 1930s against the devastation of Joseph Stalin’s policies on intolerance against the Ukraine. As Stalin advances the ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union, a young artist named Yuri (Max Irons) overcomes famine, imprisonment and torture to save his childhood love, Natalka (Samantha Barks) from the “Holodomor,” or man-made famine. 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.<br /><br />The Nazis’ genocide — the Holocaust — has been featured as the subject of many documentaries and feature films, as well as books, memorials and magazine articles. But Stalin’s crime in the Ukraine — the Holodomor — has never received a similar amount of attention, and is not as widely known as the Holocaust. Unfortunately, “Bitter Harvest” doesn’t do justice to the event it purports to memorialize. Used as a backdrop for a love story in adverse times, its importance is reduced to a convenient plot element separating Yuri and Natalka. The film never achieves the stature or quality of such films as “Schindler’s List,” “Son of Saul,” or the French documentary “Shoah,” which movingly dealt with the horrors of the Holocaust.<br /><br />Compared to the genocide taking place around them, the problems of Yuri and Natalka seem trivial and it’s difficult to empathize with them. The political motivation behind Stalin’s policy is explained as Russia’s need for the Ukraine’s ample harvest of grain to feed his large nation. By forcing the Ukranian farmers into a collective, Stalin leaves less grain than they need to plant the next year’s crop and feed their own families.<br /><br />A highlight of the film is Terence Stamp as Yuri’s grandfather Ivan, who displays his Cossack fighting skills. Director George Mendeluk’s approach is uneven. Sometimes, he incorporates cliched metaphors to stress a point. But in other instances, he relies on basic narrative to emphasize the horror of the genocide. A sequence showing a simply staged funeral with an accompanying traditional folk song is effective in underscoring the loss of life that needn’t have occurred with a more compassionate leader.<br /><br />The only bonus feature on the R-rated widescreen DVD release is a photo gallery.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians..