
Seeds of Hunger - Ukraine 1933
Between 1931 and 1933, 4 million Ukrainians were to die of hunger. This famine was not preceded by any cataclysmic weather event, nor by a war. This was an ideological crime: decided by Stalin and approved by the Politburo, with the aim of punishing Ukrainian peasants who refused the collectivization of the countryside, cultivated a strong form of nationalism and showed resistance to communist ideology. Drawing on previously unpublished material, on many Soviet films and on a number of particular points of view, including that of Welsh journalist and whistleblower Gareth Jones, this film retraces the story of that famine.
- Year: 2023
- Country: France
- Genre: Documentary, History, Crime
- Studio: Les Films du Poisson, Lobster Films
- Keyword: communism, starvation, 1930s
- Director: Guillaume Ribot
- Cast: Kester Lovelace, Elisabeth Wautlet, Less "Leslie" Clack, Jerry Di Giacomo, Ken Starcevic, Bruce Sherfield