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Mr. Jones

Mr. Jones

6.8/ 10

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2019

Release Year

119 min

Runtime

Thriller
Drama
History

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.

Keywords

grave
based on true story
genocide
1930s
holodomor
ukraine
informative
ominous

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Reviews(2)

7.5avg rating
SWITCH.

SWITCH.

@maketheSWITCH

February 9, 2020

8
8/10

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:/

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

February 3, 2024

7
7/10

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

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