On 22 of March the premiere of the Canadian film "Bitter Harverst" about the tragedy of Holodomor in Ukraine took place in cinema VENDOME in Brussels. Co-hosted by EPP - European People's Party, Greens/EFA and ALDE Group – Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament, MEP Rebecca Harms with the assistance of Mission of Ukraine to the EU.
The screening was followed by the discussion with the producer Ian Ihnatowycz.
Based on one of the most overlooked tragedies of the 20th century, Bitter Harvest is a powerful story of love, honor, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin’s genocidal policies against Ukraine in the 1930s. As Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, a young artist named Yuri ( Max Irons ) battles to survive famine, imprisonment and torture to save his childhood sweetheart Natalka ( Samantha Barks ) from the “Holodomor,” the death by starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians. Against this tragic backdrop, 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.