Rating
M18 Nudity and Some Drug Use
Language
English - subtitles to be advised
Genre
Biography, Drama, Thriller
Director
Agnieszka Holland
Cast
James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard, Joseph Mawle, Fenelia Woolgar, Kenneth Cranham
Synopsis
Agnieszka Holland’s thriller, set pre-WWII, sees Hitler’s rise to power and Stalin’s Soviet propaganda machine pushing their “utopia” to the Western world. Meanwhile an ambitious young journalist, Gareth Jones (Norton) travels to Moscow to uncover the truth behind the propaganda, but then gets a tip that could expose an international conspiracy, one that could cost him and his informant their lives. Jones goes on a life-or-death journey to uncover the truth behind the façade that would later inspire George Orwell’s seminal book Animal Farm.