Bitter Harvest (upcoming film)
| Bitter Harvest | |
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| Directed by | George Mendeluk |
| Written by | Richard Bachynsky Hoover Executive Producers Ian Ihnatowycz and Richard Bachynsky Hoover |
| Starring | Max Irons Samantha Barks Barry Pepper Tamer Hasan Lucy Brown Terence Stamp Jack Hollington Ostap Stupka Alexander Pecheritsyia |
| Music by | Benjamin Wallfisch |
| Cinematography | Douglas Milsome |
| Edited by | Stuard Baird & Lenka Svab |
| Distributed by | TBA |
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Running time
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approx. 2 hours |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $ 21.000.000 |
Bitter Harvest is an upcoming Canadian epic romantic-drama film,first ever in feature film history in the English language on the silver screen to depict Ukraine's Soviet-era height of one of the most diabolical genocides known to mankind ,recognized today in Ukrainian as the Holodomor (Death By Hunger)during 1932 -33 .The film was directed by George Mendeluk .Screenplay and original story and research written by Richard Bachynsky Hoover. The film stars Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper and Terence Stamp.[1] It was shot on location in Ukraine depicting the soviet forced man-made famine that starved to death and killed by various other heinous crimes approx. 6 to 10 million of Ukrainians and oppressed their religion and language and culture as Stalins communist regime engaged on a national "witch hunt" purging millions of patriotic Ukrainians coined as "enemy of the people " whom were also sentenced to several years of severe hard labor in death camps across the Soviet Union whereas approximately half never returned home again.
Plot
The story centers around Yuri (Max Irons), an artistic soul born into a Ukrainian (not Russian ) Cossack family from Ukraines central Cherkasy region who were part of the heroic Holodny Yar Cossack federation living on a countryside family farm on the rural outskirts of Smila. Yuri struggles to win the approval of his grandfather, Ivan Kochanuik (Stamp), and father Yaroslav Kochanuik (Barry Pepper), and the heart of Natalka (Samantha Barks). Their lives are changed forever with the invasion of the Red Army and the subsequent persecution of his family and fellow countrymen as Joseph Stalin's regime of red communist terror extends across Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
Production
Canadian Promiminent businessman Mr.Ian Ihnatowycz from Toronto Canada and Richard Bachynsky Hoover from Kingston Ontario act as the Executive Producers with fellow Canadian Chad Barger acting as producer. On October 16, 2013 Aneurin Barnard joined the cast of the film as Mykola, alongside stars Samantha Barks as Natalka and Max Irons as Yuri who in the film portrays the young artistic talented only son of a Cossack (Kozak) family, hopeful of studies and a career when attending the famous Kiev Fine Art Academy. [2] The film covers the Holodomor, a man-made famine that killed millions of Ukrainians.
Executive producer Ian Ihnatowycz stated, "Given the importance of what happened, and that few outside Ukraine knew about it because it had been covered up, the story of this genocide touched him as well as Canadian half Ukrainian Richard Bachynsky Hoover the screen writer because his Ukrainian parents struggled as immigrants and fled the Soviet Red Army invasion from West Ukraine". Mr Ihnatowicz said in an interview "this chapter of history needed to be told on the silver screen for the first time in history in the English language about the Holodomor man-made famine". He stated "It's relevant today. [...] It's ironic that before we even finished our film we had yet another example of Russia's aggression against Ukraine."[3]
The cast also includes Tamer Hassan, Lucy Brown, Jack Hollington and Tom Austen.[4]
Filming
Filming was underway in Ukraine by November 15, 2013.[5] On February 5, 2014 Variety reported that the shoot had just wrapped in Kiev.[1] In early 2014, post-production continued at London's Pinewood Studios, using the official James Bond filming tank for under-water filming. Skyfall editor Stuart Baird and SFX teams worked on the film in post production.
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