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    Mr. Jones

    Directed by Agnieszka Holland
    Poland/United Kingdom/Ukraine | 118 minutes | Modern Masters

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    Mr. Jones

    Directed by Agnieszka Holland
    Poland/United Kingdom/Ukraine | 118 minutes | Modern Masters

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    Mr. Jones

    Directed by Agnieszka Holland
    Poland/United Kingdom/Ukraine | 118 minutes | Modern Masters

  • View Trailer

    Mr. Jones

    Directed by Agnieszka Holland
    Poland/United Kingdom/Ukraine | 118 minutes | Modern Masters

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    Mr. Jones

    Directed by Agnieszka Holland
    Poland/United Kingdom/Ukraine | 118 minutes | Modern Masters

Master director Agnieszka Holland’s riveting biopic of Welsh journalist Gareth Jones (Little Women’s James Norton) who first reported on Holodomor, Stalin’s man-made genocidal famine in Soviet Ukraine, is a historical epic about a courageous battle to expose the truth.

film synopsis

Master filmmaker Agnieszka Holland returns with this riveting biopic of steadfast Welsh journalist Gareth Jones (marvelously played by Little Women's James Norton), who first blew the whistle on Holodomor, Stalin's man-made genocidal famine in Soviet Ukraine that took nearly seven million lives. After making a name for himself following a chance interview with Adolf Hitler, the ambitious young Jones heads to the Soviet Union to investigate suspiciously pro-Stalin articles from famed Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York Times writer Walter Duranty (Peter Sarsgaard). With equal parts cleverness and luck - not to mention help from fellow journalist Ada Brooks (The Queen's Vanessa Kirby) - Jones evades authorities to enter Ukraine where he uncovers an atrocity so shocking that many refuse to believe him. Holland blends her large-scale historical epic with a powerful, introspective look at a lesser-known 20th-century hero whose courageous battle to expose the truth still rings alarmingly familiar.

film details

Director: Agnieszka Holland
Producers: Andrea Chalupa, Stanislaw Dziedzic, Klaudia Smieja
Screenwriter: Andrea Chalupa
Cinematographers: Tomasz Naumiuk
Editor: Michal Czarnecki
Cast: James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle
Country: Poland/United Kingdom/Ukraine
Language: in English, Ukrainian, Russian and Welsh with English subtitles
Year: 2019
Running Time: 118 minutes
Director Filmography: Spoor (2017, PSIFF 2018), Burning Bush (2013, PSIFF 2014), In Darkness (2011, PSIFF 2012), Julie Walking Home (2002, PSIFF 2003), Europa Europa (1990)
Awards: Best Film, Polish Film Festival
Primary Company: Samuel Goldwyn FIlms

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2020 Film Festival