Mr. Jones (2019) (original) (raw)
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. (less)
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writer: Andrea Chalupa
Starring: Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, James Norton, Joseph Mawle, Michalina Olszanska, Kenneth Cranham
Producer: Angus Lamont
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Review by Brian Orndorf, June 17, 2020
8 / 10
�Mr. Jones� presents the story of journalist Gareth Jones, who not only managed to make his way into the Soviet Union during the early years of conflict before World War II, he witnessed the ravages of the Holodomor in Ukraine, exposed to the horrors of a man-made famine utilized by Joseph Stalin to destroy the country, using its riches to as �gold� to demonstrate power to the rest of the world. For 2020, such a dire tale of political exposure isn�t an easy sell, but in director Agnieszka Holland�s hands, the feature becomes a riveting study of reporting and corruption that greatly mirrors the ...read more...
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