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Mr. Jones

- The truth can't be hidden forever

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.

Release Date : 2019-10-03

Language :UkrainianRussianWelshEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Film Produkcja FeaturesCrab Apple FilmsKinorobFILM.UA GroupKrakowskie Biuro FestiwaloweUkrainian State Film AgencyStudio OrkaSilesia FilmKino Świat

Production Country : PolandUkraineUnited Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

James Norton

Character Name : Gareth Jones

Original Name : James Norton

Gender : Male

Vanessa Kirby

Character Name : Ada Brooks

Original Name : Vanessa Kirby

Gender : Female

Peter Sarsgaard

Character Name : Walter Duranty

Original Name : Peter Sarsgaard

Gender : Male

Joseph Mawle

Character Name : George Orwell

Original Name : Joseph Mawle

Gender : Male

Kenneth Cranham

Character Name : Lloyd George

Original Name : Kenneth Cranham

Gender : Male

Celyn Jones

Character Name : Matthew

Original Name : Celyn Jones

Gender : Male

Krzysztof Pieczyński

Character Name : Maxim Litvinov

Original Name : Krzysztof Pieczyński

Gender : Male

Beata Pozniak

Character Name : Rhea Clyman

Original Name : Beata Pozniak

Gender : Female

Fenella Woolgar

Character Name : Miss Stevenson

Original Name : Fenella Woolgar

Gender : Female

Michalina Olszańska

Character Name : Yulia

Original Name : Michalina Olszańska

Gender : Female

Patrycja Volny

Character Name : Bonnie

Original Name : Patrycja Volny

Gender : Female

Edward Wolstenholme

Character Name : Eugene Lyons

Original Name : Edward Wolstenholme

Gender : Male

Oleh Drach

Character Name : Leonid

Original Name : Олег Драч

Gender : Male

Martin Bishop

Character Name : Sir Ernest Bennet

Original Name : Martin Bishop

Gender : Male

Marcin Czarnik

Character Name : Paul Kleb

Original Name : Marcin Czarnik

Gender : Male

Julian Lewis Jones

Character Name : Major Jones

Original Name : Julian Lewis Jones

Gender : Male

Matthew Marsh

Character Name : William Randolph Hearst

Original Name : Matthew Marsh

Gender : Male

John Edmondson

Character Name : J.E. B Seely

Original Name : John Edmondson

Gender : Male

Olena Leonenko

Character Name : Hotel receptionist

Original Name : Olena Leonenko

Gender : Female

Barry Mulkerns

Character Name : John Cushny

Original Name : Barry Mulkerns

Gender : Male

Oleksandr Pozharskyi

Character Name : Petro

Original Name : Oleksandr Pozharskyi

Gender : Male

Martin Latallo

Character Name : Ralph Barnes

Original Name : Marcin Latałło

Gender : Male

Jacob Krichefski

Character Name : Leonard Moore

Original Name : Jacob Krichefski

Gender : Male

Ksenia Matsuk

Character Name : Katya

Original Name : Ksenia Matsuk

Gender : Female

Michael O'Donnell

Character Name : Malcolm Muggeridge

Original Name : Michael O'Donnell

Gender : Male

Wojciech Urbański

Character Name : Konstantin Umansky

Original Name : Wojciech Urbański

Gender : Male

Martin Hugh Henley

Character Name :

Original Name : Martin Hugh Henley

Gender : Male

Cara Chase

Character Name :

Original Name : Cara Chase

Gender : Female

Sabrina John

Character Name :

Original Name : Sabrina John

Gender : Male

Piotr Szostak

Character Name :

Original Name : Piotr Szostak

Gender : Male

Alexander Bozhko

Character Name :

Original Name : Alexander Bozhko

Gender : Male

Oleh Kyryliv

Character Name :

Original Name : Oleh Kyryliv

Gender : Male

Roman Skorovskyi

Character Name :

Original Name : Roman Skorovskyi

Gender : Male

Serhii Bachyk

Character Name :

Original Name : Сергій Бачик

Gender : Male

Anton Andriushchenko

Character Name :

Original Name : Anton Andriushchenko

Gender : Male

Alexandr Markin

Character Name :

Original Name : Александр Маркин

Gender : Male

Marcin Masecki

Character Name :

Original Name : Marcin Masecki

Gender : Male

Jan Młynarski

Character Name :

Original Name : Jan Młynarski

Gender : Male

Jerzy Rogiewicz

Character Name :

Original Name : Jerzy Rogiewicz

Gender : Male

Hanna Turnau

Character Name :

Original Name : Hanna Turnau

Gender : Female

Mikhail Klymchenko

Character Name :

Original Name : Михайло Климченко

Gender : Male

Richard Elfyn

Character Name :

Original Name : Richard Elfyn

Gender : Male

Olexa Gorodenko

Character Name :

Original Name : Olexa Gorodenko

Gender : Male

Yakiv Tkachenko

Character Name : Vlad

Original Name : Яків Ткаченко

Gender : Male

Reviews

S

SWITCH.

@maketheSWITCH

2021-06-23

A taut and stark thriller, one part espionage, one part survival, this is an extremely powerful true story, and one that has generally slipped under the radar. We are lucky that someone as talented as Agnieszka Holland took the helm of 'Mr Jones'. - Jake Watt Read Jake's full article... https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-mr-jones-a-chilling-true-story

C

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-02-03

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 and he does try to be fair with his reporting. On the face of it, the plan had merits - greater space to exploit, centralised harvesting, centralised everything, basically. What went wrong? Well, those aspects of "Holodomor" as it became known aren't really explained so well here, so at times the lack of recorded fact leaves the historical elements frustratingly scantily dealt with. Still, the dramatic ones work well with Peter Sarsgaard on good form as is Vanessa Kirby and the clearly rather more objective approach to this tragedy taken by director Angieszka Holland presents us with the template of a catastrophe and let's us reach some conclusions about complicity of and/or the domination of a doctrine for ourselves rather potently. The effects and results are there, but the causes - well maybe that's not so straightforward than propagandists on either side might prefer us to think. It's largely filmed on location and that, paired with some intimate photography and a persuasive score from Antoni Lazarkiewicz, adds a richness to this story and delivers up a film that provokes thought and ought to stoke an interest in a famine that's probably little known of nowadays.