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. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin—the policy is tantamount to mass murder.

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Film Cast:

• Gareth Jones: James Norton
• Ada Brooks: Vanessa Kirby
• Walter Duranty: Peter Sarsgaard
• George Orwell: Joseph Mawle
• Lloyd George: Kenneth Cranham
• Matthew: Celyn Jones
• Maxim Litvinov: Krzysztof Pieczyński
• Rhea Clyman: Beata Pozniak
• Miss Stevenson: Fenella Woolgar
• Yulia: Michalina Olszańska
• Bonnie: Patrycja Volny
• Eugene Lyons: Edward Wolstenholme
• Leonid: Oleg Drach
• Sir Ernest Bennet: Martin Bishop
• Paul Kleb: Marcin Czarnik
• Major Jones: Julian Lewis Jones
• William Randolph Hearst: Matthew Marsh
• J.E. B Seely: John Edmondson
• Hotel receptionist: Olena Leonenko
• John Cushny: Barry Mulkerns
• Petro: Oleksandr Pozharskyi
• Ralph Barnes: Marcin Latałło
• Leonard Moore: Jacob Krichefski
• Katya: Ksenia Matsuk
• Malcolm Muggeridge: Michael O’Donnell
• Konstantin Umansky: Wojciech Urbański
• …: Martin Hugh Henley
• …: Cara Chase
• …: Sabrina John
• …: Piotr Szostak
• …: Alexander Bozhko
• …: Oleh Kyryliv
• …: Roman Skorovskyi
• …: Serhii Bachyk
• …: Anton Andriushchenko
• …: Alexandr Markin
• …: Marcin Masecki
• …: Jan Młynarski
• …: Jerzy Rogiewicz
• …: Hanna Turnau
• …: Mikhail Klymchenko
• …: Richard Elfyn
• …: Olexa Gorodenko

Film Crew:

• Director: Agnieszka Holland
• Original Music Composer: Antoni Łazarkiewicz
• Line Producer: Pam Roberts
• Production Sound Mixer: Marcin Matlak
• Casting: Colin Jones
• Makeup Designer: Janusz Kaleja
• Set Decoration: Robert Wischhusen-Hayes
• Costume Design: Halyna Otenko
• Casting Director: Magdalena Szwarcbart
• Casting Associate: Toby Spigel
• Costume Design: Ola Staszko
• Art Direction: Fiona Gavin
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Filip Krzemień
• Co-Producer: Angus Lamont
• Editor: Michał Czarnecki
• Co-Producer: Yehor Olesov
• Still Photographer: Robert Pałka
• Set Decoration: Kinga Babczyńska
• Production Design: Grzegorz Piątkowski
• Executive Producer: Jeff Field
• Producer: Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska
• Associate Producer: Tomasz Karczewski
• Associate Producer: Marcin Piasecki
• Director of Photography: Tomasz Naumiuk
• Second Unit Director: Olga Chajdas
• Associate Producer: Jacek Kulczycki
• Co-Producer: Magdalena Zimecka
• Producer: Stanislaw Dziedzic
• Casting Director: Alla Samoilenko
• Location Manager: Viktor Shevchenko
• Special Effects Supervisor: Oleksandr Suvorov
• Assistant Editor: Krzysztof Korybut-Daszkiewicz
• Musician: Wojciech Kowalewski
• Production Coordinator: Shona Mackenzie
• Gaffer: Łukasz Głaszczka
• Best Boy Grip: Igor Słupecki
• Key Grip: Sebastian Frac
• Drone Cinematographer: Filip Jurzyk
• Producer: Andrea Chalupa
• Focus Puller: Zbigniew Gustowski
• Executive Producer: Leah Temerty Lord
• Associate Producer: Izabela Helbin
• Associate Producer: Patryk Tomiczek
• Line Producer: Bogna Szewczyk-Skupień
• Boom Operator: Rafał Lenart
• Sound Supervisor: Wojciech Mielimąka
• Set Decoration: Paulina Korwin-Kochanowska
• Music Consultant: Paweł Juzwuk
• Script Supervisor: Karolina Foltyn
• VFX Supervisor: Michal Konwicki
• VFX Supervisor: Franciszek Jankowski
• Special Effects Technician: Roy Murfin
• Drone Cinematographer: Marcin Kukla
• Electrician: Mateusz Dybiec
• Electrician: Maciej Konopczynski
• Electrician: Michał Marciniak
• Electrician: Bartlomiej Modrak
• Electrician: Rafal Seraj
• Electrician: Mariusz Sojak
• Electrician: Marcin Szychowski
• Electrician: Bartosz Szymaniak
• First Assistant Camera: Maksim Najdienow
• First Assistant Camera: Pavel Alekseyenko
• Steadicam Operator: Bogdan Ruslan
• Techno Crane Operator: January Jarnot
• Techno Crane Operator: Maciej Jarnot
• Makeup & Hair: Stanislaw Dolinski
• Makeup & Hair: Błażej Pintara
• Construction Foreman: Marcin Nosal
• Construction Manager: Andrey Gontar
• Construction Manager: Ryszard Idzik
• Graphic Designer: Marta Artyfikiewicz
• Graphic Designer: Dorota Pabel
• Graphic Designer: Maria Wilk
• Casting Assistant: Nataliya Gordey
• Extras Casting: Pawel Mlak
• Extras Casting: Iza Szpilka
• Extras Casting Assistant: Alana Herron
• Production Coordinator: Iryna Domnina
• Unit Production Manager: Serhii Demydov

Movie Reviews:

• SWITCH.: A taut and stark thriller, one part espionage, one part survival, this is an extremely powerful true story, and one that has generally slipped under the radar. We are lucky that someone as talented as Agnieszka Holland took the helm of ‘Mr Jones’.
  – Jake Watt
• Read Jake’s full article…
  https://www.maketheswitch.com.au/article/review-mr-jones-a-chilling-true-story
• CinemaSerf: James Norton delivers really quite well here as the journalist who stumbles upon and exposes one of the worst atrocities of Stalin’s Soviet regime. Deep amidst the poverty-stricken Steppe, he gradually becomes aware that the dissolution of the traditional small-holding style of family farm in favour of the creation of potentially more yielding grand scale operations is failing – and failing badly. Needless to say, this isn’t news that the authorities wish to be conveyed to the wider world, and so his exploration becomes steadily more perilous. Fortunately, he has a degree of diplomatic status and he does try to be fair with his reporting. On the face of it, the plan had merits – greater space to exploit, centralised harvesting, centralised everything, basically. What went wrong? Well, those aspects of “Holodomor” as it became known aren’t really explained so well here, so at times the lack of recorded fact leaves the historical elements frustratingly scantily dealt with. Still, the dramatic ones work well with Peter Sarsgaard on good form as is Vanessa Kirby and the clearly rather more objective approach to this tragedy taken by director Angieszka Holland presents us with the template of a catastrophe and let’s us reach some conclusions about complicity of and/or the domination of a doctrine for ourselves rather potently. The effects and results are there, but the causes – well maybe that’s not so straightforward than propagandists on either side might prefer us to think. It’s largely filmed on location and that, paired with some intimate photography and a persuasive score from Antoni Lazarkiewicz, adds a richness to this story and delivers up a film that provokes thought and ought to stoke an interest in a famine that’s probably little known of nowadays.