‘Bitter Harvest’ reduces Ukrainian starvation to soap opera

“Bitter Harvest,” bless its low-budget heart, means well. But George Mendeluk’s film, about the Holodomor, the forced famine and starvation that killed between 7 million and 10 million Ukrainians, as well as an uninspiring romance, falls well short of its ambitions. Set in the 1930s, the movie tells the story of Yuri (Max Irons), a gifted artist whose grandfather Ivan […]

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