Mr. Jones

The Ukrainian State Film Agency presents the trailer for "Mr. Jones" film by Agnieszka Holland which tells a story of journalist Gareth Jones who arrived in the Soviet Union in 1933 to expose the truth about the crimes of the Stalinist regime and the Holodomor in Ukraine.


The project consultant was Timothy Snyder, an American historian, and writer, professor at Yale University; in his monograph Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin he argued a statement that Soviet and Nazi regimes killed about 14 million people on the territories of Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, the Baltics, and western regions of Russia.


The filming took place in Ukraine, Poland, and Scotland. The film is due for release on November 28.

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