1933. Gareth Jones 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 modernization of the Soviet Union.
On leaving his government role, Jones decides to travel to Moscow in an attempt to get an interview with Stalin himself. There he meets Ada Brooks, a British journalist working in Moscow, who reveals that the truth behind the regime is being violently repressed. Hearing murmurs of government-induced famine, a secret carefully guarded by the Soviet censors, Jones manages to elude the authorities and travels clandestinely to Ukraine, where he witnesses the atrocities of man-made starvation – millions left to starve – as all grain is sold abroad to finance the industrializing Soviet empire.
Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland was born 28 of November 1948 in Warsaw. She went to Czechoslovakia to study film directing at FAMU in Prague. She began her film career working in Poland with Krzysztof Zanussi as assistant director, and Andrzej Wajda as her mentor. She wrote several scripts with Wajda before directing her own films, which were soon winning international acclaim and awards at festivals – in Cannes (FIPRESCI Prize for “Provincial Actors” in1978), Berlin (nomination for “Golden Bear” for “Fever” in 1981), Montreal (nomination for the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for “Angry Harvest” in 1985), Venice (nomination for “Golden Lion” for “Julie Walking Home” in 2002). “Angry Harvest” received a nomination for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film category in 1986 and “Copying Beethoven” was nominated for the Golden Seashell award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in 2006. Holland also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing (screenplay based on material previously produced or published) for “Europa Europa”. “In Darkness” was once again nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Film category and received 3 awards (from a total of 10 nominations) at the Polish Film Awards in 2012.
1979 Provincial Actors
1985 Angry Harvest
1988 To Kill a Priest
1990 Europa, Europa
2011 In Darkness
2019 Mr Jones
2020 Charlatan
2023 Green Border
2025 Franz
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