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Mr. Jones

Summary: A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.

Release Date: October 25, 2019

Genres: Biography, Drama, Thriller

Director: Agnieszka Holland

Writer: Andrea Chalupa

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

Production: Film Produkcja, Crab Apple Films, Film.ua, Kinorob, ORKA, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Parkhurst, Ukrainian State Film Agency

Distributor: WestEnd Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films

Countries: Poland, United Kingdom, Ukraine

Language: English

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11 year old 11 year old girl 1930s 1934 27 year old 27 year old man 28 year old 28 year old man 29 year old 29 year old man 30th birthday 73 year old 73 year old man accidental cannibalism anti communist apology arrest arrested engineer asking for forgiveness audio flashback author backpack bag over head barn barry wales barter based on true story being followed berlin germany black and white scene blackmail boxcar boy bread bribe briefcase british british government brother sister relationship brutality bureaucracy burning a page of paper camera camera shot as passed over by a train candle cannibalism card playing casual nudity cat character name as title character's photograph appears in a newspaper child child imitates crying cigarette lighter cigarette smoking cold the temperature collective farm communism communist government communist state comrade cooking corpse cover up crying child crying man crying woman dancer dancing dead body deadline death death by starvation death of friend debauchery difficulty breathing diplomat diplomatic crisis disconnected telephone call doorbell drink drinking drug use drunkenness earphones eating eating tree bark eavesdropping economics editor egalitarian society empty village ends with text eviction export extortion falling to the ground false news story famine farm fast motion scene father daughter relationship father son relationship fear female frontal nudity female hotel desk clerk female journalist female nudity female rear nudity female reporter fight fighting over food fire fired from a job five year plan flash camera flash forward flashback following someone food foreign adviser foreign advisor forest forgery freezing to death gay character gay seduction genocide george orwell character germany girl giving a toast grain great depression gunfire gunshot hairy chested man hallucination hedonism hiding in a hayloft holodomor hopelessness horse horse and sleigh cart hostage hotel desk clerk hughesovka ukraine human sacrifice hunger hypodermic needle imprisoned injecting heroin injection interview interwar period investigation investigative journalism investigative reporting jail jail cell jazz club jazz music journalism journalist journalists kidnapping kiss knocking on a door knocking on a glass window laughter letter letter of recommendation lie listening to a radio listening to music little boy london england long distance telephone call looking in a window looking out a train window looking out a window male nudity man and woman in a bed man reads a newspaper man rides a bicycle man uses a cane man vomits man wears eyeglasses man with a beard map memorial mocking money montage moral dilemma moscow moscow russia mother son relationship mouth harp multiple reflections in a mirror murder murder disguised as robbery gone wrong murder of a journalist murder of an innocent person murdered journalist mustached man naivety narrated by character nazi nervousness news conference newspaper newspaper article newspaper headline nickname nylon feet opium orange the fruit orgy orphan overhead camera shot paranoia party persona non grata phone booth photograph photographer pianist piano pig pigeon pocket knife poem poetry polish actor playing foreigner pre world war two prison prologue pulitzer prize winner quoting a welsh poem radio news radio static rain raising money razor blade reading a novel aloud reciting a poem record player recording reference to adolf hitler reference to franklin d. roosevelt reference to josef stalin reference to joseph goebbels reference to joseph stalin reference to lloyd george reference to paul klebnikov reference to paul the apostle reference to pulitzer prize reference to ramsay macdonald reference to the cycles of history reference to the new york times reference to the new york times the newspaper reference to walter duranty reporter restaurant revolution riding a bicycle robbery running after someone running for one's life running man saint donats wales sausage searching for the truth secrecy shooting shooting a journalist shot in the back sightseeing singer singing singing children slamming a door sled snow snowing song souvenir soviet soviet economy soviet history soviet russia soviet soldier soviet union speech stairway stalinism stalino ukraine starvation stealing food street life subtitled scene suitcase surname as title surveillance suspected of being a spy suspected suicide of mother suspicion suspicious death tapped phone tapped telephone tea telephone telephone call telephone operator theft thunder timeframe 1930s title directed by female title written by female toy electric train train train toilet train whistle tree bark trespassing two word title typewriter u.s. government ukraine ukrainian history ukrainian soviet socialist republic underground club ussr visa voice over narration voice over writing wales walter duranty character waterglass held against a wall welsh man welshman western mail the welsh newspaper what happened to epilogue wheat field william randolph hearst character wind winter wishing someone good luck wolf woman passes out woods writing a letter year 1933 year 1935 year 1957

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