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Mr. Jones | Film

Tagged: Anti-socialism, Democide, Free press as hero

Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist, tries to warn the world about communist atrocities — and dies for it. Based on a true story. [ Mr. Jones credits: Dir: Agnieszka Holland/ James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard/ 141 min/ Biography, Drama, Thriller/ Free Press As Hero, Democide, Anti-Socialism/ Poland / 2019]

External Reviews

“The story of Gareth Jones is such a fascinating one, built on such intrepid, one-man-against-the-system ideals, that it’s a wonder it hasn’t been filmed into oblivion over the past 80 years. A young Welsh journalist who blew the first public whistle on the Holodomor — the man-made famine of 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine — only to be broadly discredited by his professional peers and murdered before his 30th birthday, he was the quintessential man who knew too much.”
—Variety

“With a magnificent performance by Norton and a deliciously ripe turn from Peter Sarsgaard as Walter Duranty, Holland has unearthed a too-little-known story and presents it beautifully.”
–The Arts Desk

“It is seldom that a film with unabashed moral clarity emerges. Yet Holland has achieved it.”
—Electric Ghost Magazine

“Mr. Jones is a harsh, masterful film about being wary of the lies being fed to you by your media and your government.”
—Film Inquiry

“Mr. Jones is a story of three journalists. One persistently and somewhat naively stumbled into a genocidal scandal of world-shaking proportions. One tried to cover it up from the pages of one of the world’s great newspapers, and became one of the most infamous apologists in the history of journalism. And a third turned into a novelist who laid bare the crimes of a system that was as base as human nature, and just as murderous when the characters conveying that aren’t humans at all, but animals on a farm.”
–Movie Nation

How to See It

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Links

Official Homepage
IMDB
Wikipedia
Related Films: Holodomor Remembered in Four Films
GarethJones.org
Book: Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor

The Foundation for Economic Education released this excellent summary of the film and commentary on its importance.

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