A U.S. trailer and poster have been released for director Agnieszka Holland’s biographical thriller Mr. Jones which stars James Norton as journalist Gareth Jones, who in 1993 travelled to the Soviet Union in an effort to get an interview with Stalin, only to uncover the appalling truth behind the Soviet “utopia”; take a look here…
1933. Gareth Jones (James Norton, Happy Valley, McMafia) is an ambitious Welsh journalist who gained fame after his report on being the first foreign journalist to fly with Hitler. On leaving a government role, Jones decides to travel to Moscow in an attempt to get an interview with Stalin himself.
Hearing murmurs of government-induced famine, Jones travels clandestinely to Ukraine, where he witnesses the atrocities of man-made starvation. Deported back to London, Jones publishes an article revealing the horrors he witnessed but is accused of being a liar by those who have an interest in silencing him. As the death count mounts, Jones has to fight for the truth…
Mr. Jones arrives in US cinemas this April.