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Like many cinematic love stories, Bitter Harvest features passionate kisses, vows of fidelity, and heart-wrenching scenes of separation as turmoil engulfs a pastoral homeland.

Think Doctor Zhivago, except instead of the Russian Revolution, this film is set during the Holodomor – the famine that killed millions in Ukraine in the 1930s and that shadows the country’s relationship with Moscow to this day.

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