Poland, Ukraine, United Kingdom | 2019 | Agnieszka Holland

The latest film by the master Polish director of Europa Europa, The Secret Garden, and In Darkness is an epic historical thriller set in pre-WWII USSR. The movie follows a Welsh journalist as he uncovers a man-made famine that’s starving millions in Ukraine. (Stalin’s cover-up of this human catastrophe inspired George Orwell\’s Animal Farm.) With James Norton (Little Women), Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), and Peter Sarsgaard. \”A bold and heartfelt movie with a real Lean-ian sweep.\” –The Guardian (UK). Cleveland premiere. 119 min.

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