L'ombra: Di Stalin

as Walter Duranty, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Moscow bureau chief who actively denied the famine

Won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 2019 Polish Film Festival. Plot & Production The film is structured into two primary halves: L'ombra di Stalin

(internationally titled Mr. Jones ) is a 2019 biographical thriller and historical feature film directed by Agnieszka Holland . It tells the true story of Gareth Jones, a young Welsh journalist who, in 1933, broke the Soviet media blockade to expose the Holodomor , the genocidal man-made famine in Ukraine engineered by Joseph Stalin. Key Details Release Year: 2019 Director: Agnieszka Holland Principal Cast: James Norton as Gareth Jones Vanessa Kirby as Ada Brooks as Walter Duranty, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York

: Jones eludes authorities and travels clandestinely to Ukraine, where he witnesses firsthand the mass starvation and death. It tells the true story of Gareth Jones,