Mr. Jones
Competition 2019
POL/GBR/UKR 2019
by: Agnieszka Holland
James Norton
Mr. Jones
Competition 2019
POL/GBR/UKR 2019
by: Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland
Feb 10, 2019Peter Sarsgaard, Agnieszka Holland, James Norton
The director and her actors at the Photo Call.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019Agnieszka Holland, James Norton
The director and her leading actor.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019Andrea Chalupa
The screenwriter at the Press Conference.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019Press Conference
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019Agnieszka Holland
The director in the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019James Norton
The leading actor in the Berlinale VIP Club.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019Andrea Chalupa, Peter Sarsgaard
The screenwriter and the actor in the Berlinale VIP Club.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019Peter Sarsgaard
The actor signing autographs at the Red Carpet.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019Agnieszka Holland
I give up! The director on the Red Carpet.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019Solidarity with Oleg Sentsov
The Festival Director and the film team with posters on the Red Carpet. In the Berlinale Palast a seat was reserved for the imprisoned Ukrainian director.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019Peter Sarsgaard
The actor signing his Star Portrait in the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Feb 10, 2019James Norton
The leading actor at the premiere.
Competition – Mr. Jones
Andrea Chalupa (Screenwriter, Producer), Peter Sarsgaard (Actor), James Norton (Actor), Agnieszka Holland (Director)
Moderation: Nikolaj Nikitin
Press Conference at full lengthDirector Agnieszka Holland on her film
In March 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones takes a train from Moscow to Kharkov in the Ukraine. He disembarks at a small station and sets off on foot on a journey through the country where he experiences at first hand the horrors of a famine. Everywhere there are dead people, and everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out to the general public. Stalin’s forced collectivisation of agriculture has resulted in misery and ruin; the policy is tantamount to mass murder. Supported by Ada Brooks, a New York Times reporter, Jones succeeds in spreading the shocking news in the West, thereby putting his powerful rival, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, pro-Stalin journalist Walter Duranty, firmly in his place.
Shot in Poland, Scotland and in original locations in the Ukraine, Agnieszka Holland’s film recalls the legendary journalist Gareth Jones (1905-1935) who, despite fierce resistance, could not be dissuaded from telling the truth. Jones’s encounter with the young George Orwell is said to have inspired the latter’s dystopian parable ‘Animal Farm’ (1945).
by
Agnieszka Holland
Poland / United Kingdom / Ukraine 2019
English, Ukrainian, Russian, Welsh
141’ · Colour
World premiere
James Norton (Gareth Jones)Vanessa Kirby (Ada Brooks)Peter Sarsgaard (Walter Duranty)Joseph Mawle (George Orwell)Fenella Woolgar (Miss Stevenson)Kenneth Cranham (Lloyd George)Celyn Jones (Matthew)Krzysztof Pieczyński (Maxim Litvinow)Michalina Olszańska (Yulia)Patricia Volny (Bonnie)
Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1948, she graduated from the FAMU film school in Prague and began her career assisting Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej Wajda. She collaborated with Krzysztof Kieślowski on the screenplay of his Three Colors trilogy. Her film Gorączka screened in Competition at the Berlinale in 1981, the year in which she emigrated to Paris. Since then she has made over 30 films, winning awards including the Golden Globe and a Berlinale Silver Bear, and being nominated for a BAFTA and an Emmy. Her films In Darkness, Europa Europa and Angry Harvest were all nominated for an Academy Award.
Filmography (selection)1979 Aktorzy prowincjonalni (Provinzschauspieler) · Aktorzy prowincjonalni (Provinzschauspieler) 1981 Gorączka (Fieber) · Gorączka (Fieber) · Kobieta samotna (Eine alleinstehende Frau) · Kobieta samotna (Eine alleinstehende Frau) 1985 Bittere Ernte (Angry Harvest) · Bittere Ernte (Angry Harvest) 1988 To Kill a Priest (Der Priestermord) · To Kill a Priest (Der Priestermord) 1990 Hitlerjunge Salomon (Europa Europa) · Hitlerjunge Salomon (Europa, Europa) 1991 Largo desolato · Largo Desolato 1992 Olivier, Olivier · Olivier, Olivier 1993 The Secret Garden (Der geheime Garten) · The Secret Garden (Der geheime Garten) 1995 Total Eclipse · Total Eclipse 1997 Washington Square · Washington Square 1999 The Third Miracle (Das dritte Wunder) · The Third Miracle (Das dritte Wunder) 2002 Julie Walking Home · Julie Walking Home 2006 Copying Beethoven (Klang der Stille) · Copying Beethoven (Klang der Stille) 2009 Janosik. Prawdziwa historia (Janosik. The Real Story) · Janosik. Prawdziwa Historia (Janosik. The Real Story) 2011 In Darkness · In Darkness 2015 House of Cards; TV series, 2 episodes · House of Cards; TV series, 2 episodes 2017 Pokot (Spoor) · Pokot (Spoor) 2019 Mr. Jones · Mr. Jones 2020 Charlatan
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020
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