Famine-33 (Ukrainian: Голод-33, Holod-33) is a 1991 Soviet drama film by Oles Yanchuk about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, and based on the novel The Yellow Prince by Vasyl Barka.
When Stalin rose to power in the late 1920s, the Communist Party imposed control over society and politics through systematic terror, targeting the peasantry first.
Once deprived of food, people scavenged fields for leftover seeds, but the "Law of the Three Spikelets" imposed execution for anyone caught taking even the smallest amount.
At the heart of the story is the Katran family, labeled "kulaks"—a father, his wife, children, and elderly mother, who is the first to die from the man-made famine.
One by one, the children succumb, leaving only one surviving child, through whose eyes the audience witnesses the Red Army starving Ukraine into submission.