I just want to get a few things out of the way because I know tumblr and how they react to this.
-yes the cast is white Irish/Englishman portraying Eastern Europeans
-Yes they speak in very English accents
-yes there is a somewhat forced heterosexual subplot
But please. For the love of God. Don’t. Boycott it over this. This film is about genocide. About the systematic killing of Ukrainians. There has never been a film about this, it’s never taught in any history book, and to this day Russia denies it ever happened.
This movie is so critical, and as a Ukrainian I am begging you not to shit on it and go full sjw for not accurately depicting the people of the region. Believe me we, Ukrainians, do not fucking care that the representation is not 100% accurate. Seriously, every Ukrainian in the comments of the trailer is begging people to forget about the English accents and are just relieved people are finally learning about this. we want our story heard and we want the world to be aware of Ukrainian suffering and take interest in the nations current state of affairs. Please support Bitter Harvest when it comes out in February.
This is the trailer in quiestion:
PLEASE don’t shit on this movie because apparently the cast isn’t Slavic People.
I can’t even tell you how much it means to us, Ukrainians, that Hollywood makes a movie about GEMOCIDE IN UKRAINE that so many people don’t even know about! I don’t care there will be a romantic plotline, I don’t care that it wob’t be 100% historic accurate. I just want people to know that Holodomor happened, that it was the man-made genocide, that it was the crime communists don’t want to take responsibilty for still.
The cast isn’t Slavic but the makers are. The film production was financed by Ian Ihnatowycz, a Canadian whose parents fled post-war Ukraine. Writer, Richard Bachynsky Hoover, and director, George Mendeluk are both are Canadians of Ukrainian descent.
Ihnatowycz: “I wanted to make this story understood more widely so making it English language with a known cast will hopefully help make it more appealing to a western audience.” (source)
