Mr. Jones (2019)
Rating: 6.8/10
Duration: 119 min
Genres: Drama, Thriller, History,
Director(s): Agnieszka Holland,
Description:
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.
Cast
- Peter Sarsgaard as Walter Duranty
- Joseph Mawle as George Orwell
- James Norton as Gareth Jones
- Kenneth Cranham as Lloyd George
- Vanessa Kirby as Ada Brooks
- Celyn Jones as Matthew
- Krzysztof Pieczyński as Maxim Litvinov
- Beata Pozniak as Rhea Clyman
- Fenella Woolgar as Miss Stevenson
- Michalina Olszańska as Yulia
- Patrycja Volny as Bonnie
- Edward Wolstenholme as Eugene Lyons
- Oleh Drach as Leonid
- Martin Bishop as Sir Ernest Bennet
- Marcin Czarnik as Paul Kleb