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Mr. Jones (2019)

10/03/2019Thriller, Drama, History1h 59m
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The truth can't be hidden forever

Overview

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    James Norton

    Gareth Jones

  2. Cast 1

    Vanessa Kirby

    Ada Brooks

  3. Cast 1

    Peter Sarsgaard

    Walter Duranty

  4. Cast 1

    Joseph Mawle

    George Orwell

  5. Cast 1

    Kenneth Cranham

    Lloyd George

  6. Cast 1

    Celyn Jones

    Matthew

  7. Cast 1

    Krzysztof Pieczyński

    Maxim Litvinov

  8. Cast 1

    Beata Pozniak

    Rhea Clyman

  9. Cast 1

    Fenella Woolgar

    Miss Stevenson

James Norton delivers really quite well here as the journalist who stumbles upon and exposes one of the worst atrocities of Stalin's Soviet regime. Deep amidst the poverty-stricken Steppe, he gradually becomes aware that the dissolution of the traditional small-holding style of family farm in favour of the creation of potentially more yielding grand scale operations is failing - and failing badly. Needless to say, this isn't news that the authorities wish to be conveyed to the wider world, and so his exploration becomes steadily more perilous. Fortunately, he has a degree of diplomatic status ...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget-

Revenue $2,855,316.00

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