Bitter Harvest：Full Cast & Crew

Directed by

George Mendeluk

Writing Credits

Richard Bachynsky Hoover
(screenplay) and: George Mendeluk
(screenplay): Richard Bachynsky Hoover
(story)

Cast

Samantha Barks
Natalka: Tamer Hassan
Sergei: Aneurin Barnard
Mykola: Ostap Stupka
Boiko: Tom Austen
Taras: William Beck
Stefan: Lucy Brown
Olena: Denis Tarasov
Young Yuri: Bondareva Lena B. Vysotskogo
Maria: Anastasiya Karpenko
Irena: Igor Miroshnichenko
Young Petro: Valentina Zubchenko
Baba Yaga: Tim Charles
Gregory Zinoviev: William Key
Lev Kamenev: Adam McNamara
Dmitri: Richard Ashton
Father Ostapovich: Valeriya Khodos
Oksana: Vladimir Miroshnichenko
Older Petro: Rob Mitchell-James
Nikolai Bukharin: Paul Hickey
Lazar Kaganovich: Arina Kotash
Vlodio's Daughter #1: Nastya Kotash
Vlodio's Daughter #2: Dylan Williams
Gareth Jones: Vita Smachelyuk
Starving Woman at Train Station: Vitaliy Saliy
Conductor #1: Terry Victor
Voroshilov: Malcolm Freeman
Molotov: Joey Price
Isak: Edward Akrout
Professor Temchuck: Evgeniy Papernyy
Conductor #2: Michael Jenn
Professor Malishnikov: Oles Katsion
Soviet Officer: Richard Brake
Medved: Igor Gnezdilov
Prisoner: Svetlana Orlichenko
Sergei's Mother: Gurov Danil
Marko: Valentin Semko
Yevgeniy: Rod Hunt
Anton: Vladimir Gordeev
Grave Digger #1: Alexandr Tarasevich
Grave Digger #2: Kathy Kiera Clarke
Varvara: Jane Thorne
Gaunt Old Woman: Veronika Bratusina
Natalka in childhood: Olena Chernova
Communist Speaker: Dennis Good
Voice over: Hakan Hassan
Vlad: Jack Hollington
Lubko: Max Irons
Yuri: Gary Oliver
Stalin: Oleksandr Pecherytsia
Volodyo: Barry Pepper
Yaroslav: Terence Stamp
Ivan: Nicholas Aaron
Walter Duranty: Jocasta Anderson
Helen: Vilen Babichev
Communist: Gintare Beinoraviciute
Office Worker: Dominic Borrelli
Andrei Zhdanov: Ryan Bromham
Yuri: Anatoliy Evdokimov
Oleksander: Belize Hassan
Katya: Belle Hassan
Katya: Vera Horton
Executive's Wife: Kevin Hudson
Peasant: Guy Hunting
Igor: Marat Khairoullin
Revolutionary Pesant: Tracy Kirby
Senia: George Michael Georgiou
Oscar: Sonata Molocajeviene
Annya: Kane Ogieva
Willard: Anastasiya Ostreinova
Mykola's Girlfriend: David G. Robinson
Stalin's Bodyguard: Candida Storey
Olga

Produced by

Richard Bachynsky Hoover
executive producer: Ukraine: Stuart Baird
producer: Chad Barager
producer: Olena Chernova
Pre Production Producers assistant.: Dennis Davidson
executive producer: Jaye Gazeley
producer: Peter D. Graves
executive producer: Tamer Hasan
co-producer: Ian Ihnatowycz
producer: William J. Immerman
executive producer: Roman Kindrachuk
producer: Ukraine: Marshall Leviten
line producer: additional photography: James Joseph McDonald
archive producer: George Mendeluk
producer: Valerie Phil
line producer: Darko Skulsky
producer: Ukraine: Camilla Storey
co-producer

Music by

Benjamin Wallfisch

Cinematography by

Douglas Milsome

Editing by

Stuart Baird
: Lenka Svab

Casting By

Daniel Hubbard
: Gemma Sykes

Production Design by

Martin Hitchcock
: Vladimir Radlinski

Costume Design by

Tatyana Fedotova
: Galina Otenko
: Aleksandra Stepina

Makeup Department

Christine Allsopp
hair designer: additional photography / makeup designer: additional photography: Catherine Davies
hair and make up supervisor: additional photography: Sjaan Gillings
hair stylist: crowd / makeup artist: crowd: Rita HorvÃ¡th
hair stylist / makeup artist: Kylie Jonkman
make-up and hair: additional photography: Alla Leonova
assistant makeup artist: Oksana Oksamitnaya
assistant makeup artist: second unit: Elena Ovdienko
assistant makeup artist: Svetlana Polikashkina
assistant makeup artist: second unit: Rupert Simon
hair designer / makeup designer: Irina Solodovskaya
makeup artist: Anna Tesner
hair stylist / makeup artist: Eve Wignall
make up artist: additional photography

Production Management

Enest Ansah
unit manager: Aleksey Barilo
unit manager: Andrew Bonner
production manager - additional photography / production manager: additional photography: Ana Perez Bosque
production pa: additional photography: Candi Dane
production assistant: additional photography: Su Fraser
post-production supervisor: Jamie Hollingworth
production pa: additional photography: Guy Mannerings
production pa: additional photography: Nikolay Semko
production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Jimmy Alfred
second assistant director: Alexandra Baczynskyj
assistant director: Peter Dashkewytch
first assistant director: Alexander Mendeluk
second unit director / splinter unit director: Daryna Rymareva
third assistant director: Valik Semko
second assistant director on set: Max Terehin
trainee assistant director: Lauro David Chartrand-Del Valle
second unit director (as Lauro Chartrand): Lev Watach
third assistant director

Art Department

Marc Beros
hod scenic painter: Kostiantyn Bezveniuk
charge hand carpenter: Daniel Bilmes
painter: Gene D'Cruze
construction manager: additional photography: Miranda Diamond
assistant art director: Vitaliy Emets
construction foreman: Hannah Evans
set decorator: additional photography: Max Halushka
art director assistant: Owen Harrison
prop hand/set dresser: additional photography: Stuart Headley-Read
standby props: additional photography: Joel Hills
standby rigger: additional photography: Martin Hitchcock
production designer: additional photography: David Horrill
props master: additional photography: Gavin Hosler
standby chippie: additional photography: Alexandr Ilchenko
props master assistant: Yuriy Kanivets
carpenter: Sergiy Karvets
carpenter (as Sergey Karvets): Zoya Kosulina
props master: Dimitriy Kovalenko
carpenter: Andrew Krupenko
carpenter: Sara Leighton
art tuition: Max Irons: Petro Lisak
carpenter: Andrew Litvinhuk
carpenter: Gleb Lobanov
carpenter: Sergey Lopatin
carpenter: Danny Margetts
head of department carpenter: additional photographgy: Lesia Mikrenets
carpenter: Campbell Mitchell
standby props: UK / standby props: additional photography: Alexandr Molotov
carpenter: Tony Noble
art director: additional photography: Kiril Ovsiannikov
construction coordinator: Oleg Pilnik
carpenter: Samantha Redwood
draughtsman: additional photography: Sergey Reznik
construction foreman: Nikolay Semenovsky
art director assistant: Sergey Senchuk
carpenter: Nick Slater
carpenter: additional photography: Iulina Synolytsia
assistant property master: Anna Tavlinskaya
co-art director: Tolor Tokitza
carpenter: Viacheslav Ukrainets
props master: Sergei Wannik
carpenter: Tracey Wilson
storyboard artist: Jamie Wisker
painter: additional photography: Peter Wood
prop hand/set dresser: additional photography: Tereza Yakovyna
storyboard artist: Maxim Yaresko
carpenter

Sound Department

Christopher Alba
supervising foley editor: Doug Cooper
re-recording mixer: Scott Curtis
foley editor: Boris Riccardo D'Agostino
Italian language re-recording mixer: Dane A. Davis
sound designer / supervising sound editor: Arthur Fenn
1st assistant sound: additional phototgraphy: Stephanie Flack
supervising sound editor (as Stephanie L. Flack): Peter Gleaves
adr mixer: Bill Higley
adr mixer: Max Hilliard
sound mix technician: Ilya Ivashchenko
adr recordist: Robin Johnson
sound maitenance engineer: additional photography: Denis Kaschey
boom operator: Matthew W. Kielkopf
first assistant sound editor: Mark Larry
sound effects editor: Eric Lindemann
sound effects editor: Harrison Meyle
dialogue editor: Juan Montoto Ugarte
sound trainee: additional photography: Alyson Dee Moore
foley artist: Dennis Ned
boom operator: Duncan Paterson
second assistant sound: dailies: Kobi Quist
sound mix assistant: Kyle Rochlin
foley recordist: John Roesch
foley artist: Joe Schiff
dialogue editor: Seva Solntsev
adr recordist: F. Scott Taylor
assistant sound editor (as Scott Taylor): Oskar von Unge
sound mix technician (as Oskar Von Unge): Christopher T. Welch
adr/dialogue editor (as Chris Welch): Jai Williams
sound mix technician: Dmytro Yamkovyi
boom operator: Ivan Zabaluyev
sound mixer: Ivan Zharov
boom operator: Ronnie Mukwaya
mix studio assistant (uncredited): Kyle Rochlin
foley mixer (uncredited)

Special Effects by

Garry Cooper
floor supervisor: UK: Alexander Gunn
special effects supervisor: UK: Lee Hales
sfx floor supervisor: additional phototgraphy: Olga Markova
special effects coordinator: Kyle May
special effects technician: additional photography: Valeriya Podluzhnaya
special effects props maker assistant: Ionel Popa
special effects makeup: Anton Shpil
special effects assistant: Alexandr Suvorov
pyrotechnics coordinator: Vladimir Suvorov
special effects technician: Illya Volodin
special effects props maker: Sergey Zubenko
special effects makeup assistant

Visual Effects by

Travis Baumann
Visual Effects Designer and Artist: Richard Briscoe
visual effects producer / visual effects supervisor: Andy Chopping
photographer: Chad E. Collier
data manager: Mammal Studios: Janice Barlow Collier
pipeline technical assistant: Mammal Studios: Glenn Cote
visual effects producer / visual effects supervisor: Phillip Feiner
visual effects supervisor: Jonnie Godfrey
3D scanning specialist / 3d scanning specialist: Piers Hampton
vfx supervisor: additional photography / visual effects supervisor: additional photography: Michael S. Harbour
digital effects supervisor: Mammal Studios: Evan Hirschberg
compositor: Mammal Studios: Drew Huntley
digital compositor: Cory Lee
lead compositor: Pixel Playground: Don Lee
visual effects supervisor: Pixel Playground: Kim Lee
visual effects producer: Pixel Playground: Sun Lee
matte painter: Lola VFX: Duncan Lees
3D scanning specialist: Efficacy4D: Gregory D. Liegey
visual effects supervisor: Mammal Studios: Jonathan MacPherson
visual effects supervisor: Sarah Marikar
compositor: Lola VFX: Mare McIntosh
visual effects producer: Lola VFX: Alex Prihodko
visual effects producer / visual effects supervisor: Cinnamon VFX: Irene Prokopets
visual effects project manager: Jason Adam Schaefer
compositor: Asa Shoul
digital colourist: Nik Svab
visual effects editor: Daniel Svaboe
roto artist: Jeremiah Sweeney
compositor: Lola VFX: Erik Christopher Toth
compositor: Mammal Studios: Yuki Uehara
digital compositor: Mike Uguccioni
digital compositor: Michele C. Vallillo
visual effects executive producer: Mammal Studios: Jason Wardle
cg supervisor: Mammal Studios: Edson Williams
visual effects supervisor: Lola Visual Effects: Alex J. Wood
compositor: Mammal Studios: Mykhailo Yefimenko
digital compositor: Cinnamon VFX

Stunts

Pavel Avilov
stunt performer: Sergey Buchok
stunt performer: Uros Certic
stunt performer: Tony Christian
stunt performer: Bruce Crawford
fight coordinator: Jason Curle
stunt performer: Mykola Galagan
stunt performer: Vincent Keane
stunt coordinator / stunt coordinator: additional photography: Leigh Maddern
stunt performer: Shawn C. Orr
stunt coordinator: 2nd unit: Dmytro Rudyi
stunt performer (as Dmitro Rudy): Serhii Shliakhtiuk
stunt performer (as Sergey Shlyahtuyk): Ivan Stryzhakov
stunt performer: Simon Whyman
stunt double: Dylan Williams: Leo Woodruff
stunt performer: Ilya Yurchishin
stunt coordinator: Ukraine (as Illya Yurchyshyn)

Camera and Electrical Department

Vladimir Akulov
rigging electric: Alex Bender
second assistant camera: 'a' camera, additional photography: Lou Bogue
gaffer: Harry Bowers
b camera 1st assistant camera: additional photography: Richard Briscoe
additional camera operator: Oleg Bublik
chief electric second unit: Steve Casey
electrician: additional photography: Neil Cervin
director of photography: second unit / second unit director of photography: Peter Chetvertiaykov
a camera focus puller: Cade Conetta
electrician: additional photography: Paulo Fernandes
electrician: additional photography: Andriy Golovin
rigging electric: Andrew Gorovyi
company grip: Evgeniy Gubrenko
camera operator: Marjana Gurova
"a" camera clapper: Luke Andrew Haddock
video operator: additional photography: Alexandr Hetman
rigging electric second unit: Oleksandr Korotun
assistant camera: Alison Lai
b camera 2nd assistant: additional photography: Valery Latuga
gaffer: James Layton
camera operator: "a" camera / steadicam operator: Ewan MacFarlan
digital imaging technician assistant: additional photography: Sukhovey Maxim
d.i.t. data loader: Mark Milsome
b camera operator: additional photography: Phil Murray
grip: additional photography: Ron Nicholls
b camera grip: additional photography: Aleksey Overchuk
focus puller: "b" camera: Robert Palmer
1st assistant camera: additional photography: Sergei Panteleyev
camera operator: Sergey Prihodko
best boy grip: Sergey Rupos
dit: second unit: Luis Santos
best boy: additional photography: Yuriy Sidorchuk
chief electric: Leonid Sidorenko
best boy gaffer (as Leonid Sydorenko): Olena Sokolova
"b" camera clapper: Joe Steel
digital imaging technician: additional photography: Serge Svetnoy
gaffer (as Sergii Svietnyi): Mark Tillie
still photographer: Sergey Troshin
best boy grip: Vladimir Tsiukalo
rigging electric second unit: Jan Wachowski
d.i.t

Casting Department

Vanessa Baker
adr voice casting: Nika Bondar
casting: Kiev: Marina Koriagina
casting manager: kiev

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Anna Afanasieva
assistant costume designer: Max Brennan
set costumer: Elena Bulova
additional costumer: Valeria Cherneta
on set costumer: Jake Collier
principal costume standby: Additional Photography: Anton Fedchenko
additional costumer: Oleg Fedotov
on set costumer: Dasha Filshyna
assistant costume designer: Viktor Gavluk
head of set dressers: Sergei Gratchev
additional costumer: Elizabeth Healy
costume designer: additional photography: Mariana Kovalenko
additional costumer: Olga Kovtun
additional costumer: John Laurie
costume standby: additional photography: Dmitriy Malakhov
military consultant: Ron Mawbey
costume fitter: additional photography: Jessie Metcalf
costume junior: additional photography: Katerina Postavska
on set costumer: Chloe Reynolds
costume junior: Inna Samoylenko
on set costumer: Marina Sechilo
ethno consultant: Maria Serrano
costume trainee: additional photography: Karolyna Sheremeta
assistant costume designer: Iryna Skulski
costume assistant: Kieron Stone
costumer: additional photography: Nat Van Halle
costume supervisor: additional photography

Editorial Department

Tom Cairns
digital intermediate conform editor: Michelle Cort
digital intermediate conform editors: Glenn Cote
first assistant editor: Los Angeles: Theresa Crooks
digital intermediate coordinator: Marie Fernandes
digital intermediate producer: Harry Frishberg
additional editor: Max Frishberg
additional editor: Maxine Gervais
senior colorist: Additional Color: Eva Golabek
second assistant editor: Erik Kaufmann
digital intermediate editor: Nadiya Luthra
post-production coordinator: George Mitchell
assistant editor: Jeff Pantaleo
assistant colorist: additional color: Jateen Patel
digital colourist: Bob Peishel
digital intermediate producer: Nik Svab
additional editor / first assistant editor: Jason Wasserman
1st assistant editor

Location Management

Tom Bosanquet
assistant location manager: Andy Lyall
location security: Andrew Nedobora
location manager: James Player
location manager / location manager: additional photography: Yuriy Zhyzhko
assistant location manager

Music Department

Laurence Anslow
digital recordist: Christopher Brooks
music editor: Adam Burgess
Score Mix Assistant: Chris Craker
soundtrack producer: Claire Freeman
music supervisor: Owen Gurry
musician: additional mandolin: Christopher Gutch
composer agent: Jake Jackson
score engineer: Nathan Klein
additional orchestration (as Nathan W Klein): Alex Lu
music programmer: Alec Roberts
additional orchestration: Patrick Savage
additional orchestrator: Josephine Stephenson
composer: additional music / music assistant: Benjamin Wallfisch
conductor / music mixer / music producer

Script and Continuity Department

Alexandra Baczynskyj
assistant script supervisor: Nadiya Balyant
script supervisor: second unit: Jo Beckett
script supervisor: additional photography: Cornelia Stefan
script supervisor

Transportation Department

Murray Aston
unit driver: additional photography: Igor Bolbochenko
driver: Allan Bradshaw
unit driver: additional photography: Jimmy Carruthers
transport captain: additional photography / transportation captain: Paul Deluce
unit driver: Graeme Downie
unit driver: additional photography: Valeriy Franchuk
dit driver: main unit: Sergey Furman
driver: Sergiy Konyk
driver: Anatoliy Koval
backstage driver: Yasha Kunets
dit driver: second unit: Precilla Landolfi
travel agent: Vladimir Marchuk
transportation coordinator: Sergey Myagkiy
transportation coordinator: Dmithiy Ogienko
driver: art department: Olivia Posca
travel agent: Gini Taboika
travel agent: Sasha Tolochko
driver: Varim Trofimov
driver

Additional Crew

Enest Ansah
unit manager: additional photography: Olga Avrahova
production coordinator: Alexandra Baczynskyj
assistant: Shana Bah
production assistant: additional photography: Nataliya Barilo
catering service: Michael Beard
on set medic: additional photography: Lisa Birch
assistant to diving coordinator: Olena Chernova
production assistant: Lisa Ciniglio
insurance broker: Ellie Coverdale
production assistant: additional photography: Chris Cullum
health & safety advisor: additional photography: Candida Dane
production assistant: Dennis Davidson
producer's representative: David Decio
double: D. Dominic Devine
standby art director: additional photography: Georgia Dufton
floor runner: additional photography: Jacqui Dunal
executive assistant to the executive producer, Ian Ihnatowycz: Valeriya Faed
catering assistant: Hannah Featherstone
production secretary: additional photography: Kateryna Fedoseeva
assistant accountant: Colin Giles
head of security: Paula GÃ³mez de CadiÃ±anos
assistant production coordinator: Ruth Halliday
script clearances: additional photographu: Paul Hillier
insurance: UK additional photography: Romy Hollington
tutor chaperone: Jamie Hollingworth
production assistant: Key: Senia Kochneva
second assistant accountant: Olya Kosenko
assistant to producer: Anatoliy Koval
unit assistant: Dmitriy Krutenko
unit assistant: Dennis Kumeiko
production staff: Judd Lewin
assistant accountant / assistant accountant: additional photography: Amilia Matthews
social media: James Joseph McDonald
archive producer: Oleg Metreveli
on-set medic: Richard Morrison
titles designed by: Katie Neal
production coordinator: additional photography: John Nelles
dialect coach: Barry Pepper: Darin Oishi
production accountant: Iegor Pogrebniak
production staff: Oleg Ptashnyk
production staff: Tom Ralphs
armourer: Miguel E. Rebagliato
post production runner: Carlos Rincon
international sales: Mark Roper
1st assistant director: additional photography: Mark Sanderson
story editor: Dave Shaw
diving coordinator: Joe Street
stand-in: Max Irons: Vika Turbina
catering assistant: Charlie Waller
2nd assistant director: additional photography: Dean Wares
titles designed by: Parvez Zabier
production accountant: Oksana Zaporozhtseva
catering assistant: Ben Hope
set security (uncredited)

Thanks

Alex Strauss
special thanks: help with script