Mr Jones
Date and time:
Tuesday 23 November, 2021
20:30 - 22:30
Location:
Curzon Wimbledon
Second Floor, 23 The Broadway, SW19 1RE
London
In-person screening at Wimbledon Curzon on 23 November at 20:30.
James Norton stars as Gareth Jones, a Welsh journalist travelling to the Soviet Union on a reporting assignment in the 1930s. Jones escapes his cynical circle of media ex-pats in Moscow and embarks on a secret trip south to Ukraine, following a tip-off about a raging famine. He encounters eerie and haunting scenes of human tragedy but his eye-witness accounts are later dismissed and denied.
Post-screening discussion with Dr Daria Mattingley, University Cambridge. Hosted by Wimbledon Film Club.
Tickets go on sale on Saturday 13 November.
Speaker
Dr Daria Mattingly
Daria is writing a book on the identifiable and memorial traces of the rank-and-file perpetrators of the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor. Daria received her PhD at Cambridge University and MA in Russian History at the University of Bristol. Daria was a part-time teaching fellow at the University of Bath before coming back to Cambridge. Dr Mattingly is on the selection committee of the Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine, University of Ottawa.
