Gareth Jones's real-life reporting is widely credited as a major source of inspiration for George Orwell’s , which the film acknowledges. The story highlights the conflict between truth-seeking journalism and the political expediency that often covers up atrocities. Holodomor Films (Great Famine in Ukraine) - IMDb
Won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 2019 Polish Film Festival. Plot & Production The film is structured into two primary halves: L'ombra di Stalin
as Walter Duranty, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Moscow bureau chief who actively denied the famine Gareth Jones's real-life reporting is widely credited as
: Gareth Jones travels to Moscow under the guise of interviewing Stalin but becomes suspicious of the official Soviet narrative. L'ombra di Stalin