![]() ![]() ![]() Through a chance meeting with fellow British journalist Ada Brooks-who is under close observation by the OGPU, the Soviet secret police-he learns that his contact in Moscow was murdered by the authorities while investigating the supposed Ukrainian agricultural revolution. He is also informed that journalists are forbidden to venture outside of Moscow. Upon arrival he meets Eugene Lyons, a Russian-American journalist, who is with a party of British engineers from Metropolitan-Vickers they take him to a party at the home of Walter Duranty and give him cryptic hints that the Soviets are not as enlightened as they make out, and that the Soviet economic miracle may not rest on the famed efficiency of the Ukrainian farms as they have claimed. Trading on his connections in Britain and in Russia, Jones manages to obtain a Russian visa with the intention of setting up an interview with Stalin. To this end, Jones has taken up a job as a political advisor to David Lloyd George, the former British prime minister, but with funding limited owing to the economic difficulties, and after failing to make his case in a critical meeting, he is made redundant. The son of an English teacher in the Welsh colony of Hughesovka in Soviet Ukraine, Jones is also fascinated by how Stalin's Soviet Union has gone from a backward peasant state to an industrial powerhouse that appears to be the only country unaffected by the Great Depression and believes that its success means that a British-Soviet alliance is the key to preventing the Nazi domination of Europe. In 1933 Gareth Jones is an ambitious young journalist, who has gained some renown for his interview with Adolf Hitler. The film was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival. (' Holodomor') in which millions died in Ukrainian Republic, Soviet Union. It is based on the true story of the British journalist Gareth Jones, who uncovers the truth of the devastating famine Jones ( Mr Jones in British release) ( Polish: Obywatel Jones, lit.'Citizen Jones', Ukrainian: Ціна правди, lit.'The Price of Truth') is a 2019 Polish- Ukrainian- British thriller biographical film written and co- produced by Andrea Chalupa and directed by Agnieszka Holland. ![]()
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