Fiction
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writer: Andrea Chalupa
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine, Poland, United Kingdom
Language: English, Russian, Ukrainian, Welsh
Length: 141 Minutes
Also known as: Red Secrets – Im Fadenkreuz Stalins (German Title), L’Ombre de Staline (French title), Гарет Джонс (Russian title), L’ombra di Stalin (Italian title), Obywatel Jones (Polish title)
Mr Jones – Synopsis
1933. Gareth Jones (James Norton) is an ambitious young Welsh journalist who gained fame after his report on being the first foreign journalist to fly with Hitler. Whilst working as an advisor to Lloyd George, he is now looking for his next big story. The Soviet “utopia” is all over the news, and Jones is intrigued as to how Stalin is financing the rapid modernisation of the Soviet Union.
Further Information:
Wikipedia in English / Ukrainian / Russian
Also read: The Other Half, first reviews for the refugee documentary presented at Thessaloniki
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