Ironically, the pandemic has overshadowed the terrible famine in Ukraine that the great Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland writes about in Stalin's Shadow . The film today comes out of confinement, which the director spent in her house in Brittany.
LE FIGARO. - There are two subjects in Stalin's Shadow: the Holodomor, the great famine planned by Stalin in 1933 to destroy Ukraine, and the portrait of the Welsh journalist Gareth Jones (James Norton), the first to investigate this mass crime. Which one was first for you?
Agnieszka HOLLAND. - Let's say that the Holodomor is the main subject, and Gareth Jones the theme which allows to approach it in a double relation to the truth. There is the independent and conscientious journalist who will look for her on the ground. And there are those who refuse to see it, the whole of the Western world at the time. George Orwell is one of the few personalities to have weighed all the implications of Gareth Jones' report. This will inspire him with his famous
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