Bitter Harvest (2001)

Original title

How Harry Became a Tree

Directed by

Goran Paskaljević

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

R

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a small Irish village, a man tries to outdo his rival by proving he has the hardest life. Their escalating feud takes a strange and bitter turn.

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What happens

How Harry Became a Tree, also released as Bitter Harvest, is a 2001 drama film directed by Goran Paskaljević and starring Colm Meaney, Adrian Dunbar and Cillian Murphy. It is based on the Chinese novel Lao Dan is a Tree (Chinese: 老丹是一棵树, 1998) by Yang Zhengguang and deals allegorically with the Irish Civil War and Yugoslav Wars. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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