Bitter Harvest by Susan Bowden

Benjamin Wallfisch is composing the music for the upcoming epic romance Harvest. The film is directed by George Mendeluk and stars Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Barry Pepper and Terence Stamp. The movie is set in 1930s Ukraine and centers on a man’s fight to save his family and everything he holds dear from complete annihilation as Stalin uses mass starvation and executions to crush resistance to his totalitarian regimen. Mendeluk also co-wrote the screenplay with Richard Bachynsky Hoover based on an original story by Hoover. Mendeluk is also producing the project with Jaye Gazeley and Chad Barager. Harvest is expected to premiere later this year.

Set between the two World Wars and based on true historical events, BITTER HARVEST conveys the untold story of the Holodomor, the genocidal famine engineered by the tyrant Joseph Stalin. The film displays a powerful tale of love, honour, rebellion and survival at a time when Ukraine was forced to adjust to the horrifying territorial ambitions of the burgeoning Soviet Union. With an exceptional cast of established and rising stars, the film epically recreates one of the most dramatic and dangerous episodes in the history of 20th Century Europe.