Mr. Jones

About Mr. Jones

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.

Mr. Jones is a 2019 history thriller film directed by Agnieszka Holland. Released in October 2019, it runs 119 minutes.

Its themes are informative, ominous, grave, and ukraine. The story is adapted from real events.

James Norton appears as Gareth Jones, Vanessa Kirby as Ada Brooks, Peter Sarsgaard as Walter Duranty, and Joseph Mawle as George Orwell. The screenplay is by Andrea Chalupa. It comes from Crab Apple Films, Film Produkcja, and FILM.UA Group. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Hulu.

Bitter Harvest, Hotel Rwanda, and Dark Waters make useful companions to Mr. Jones, all filed under 1930s, genocide, and holodomor. TMDB voters put it at 6.7 out of 10 across 493 votes.