Mr. Jones (2019 film)

'The Price of Truth') is a 2019 Polish-Ukrainian-British thriller biographical film[5] written and co-produced by Andrea Chalupa [uk] and directed by Agnieszka Holland.

It is based on the true story of the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who uncovers the truth of the devastating famine ('Holodomor') in which millions died in the Ukrainian Republic, Soviet Union.

Jones works 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.

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.

Upon arrival in Moscow, 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 Stalin's ability to pay for British engineers or new factories may not rest on the famed efficiency of the Ukrainian farms as they have claimed.

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.

Armed with this information, Jones alters his documents to make him appear to be still employed by Lloyd George and obtains an invitation to Ukraine by the Soviet foreign minister Maxim Litvinov.

[9] The film was released in Poland on 25 October 2019 by Kino Świat,[10] in Ukraine on 28 November 2019 by MMD UA,[11] and in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2020 by Signature Entertainment.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Flawed yet fundamentally worthy, Mr. Jones peers into the past to tell a fact-based story that remains troublingly relevant today.