Gareth Jones. The Man Who Knew Too Much

The extraordinary story of a young journalist who was the first to tell the world the truth about the Great Famine in Ukraine.

Gareth Jones' biography will be told by Agnieszka Holland in her latest film.

In 1933, young journalist Gareth Jones traveled alone east to interview dictator Joseph Stalin. During this trip, he learns about the "Ukrainian crisis". As one of the few Western correspondents, he gets to terror-stricken Ukraine, where he witnesses the greatest famine in human history. He sees Soviet crimes with his own eyes and hears about people dying of hunger and acts of cannibalism. After returning to the West, he tells the world about the Great Famine.

Hounded by corrupt journalists who question his credibility, he is rejected by his community. The way he was plunged even inspired George Orwell to write Animal Farm.

Gareth Jones was one of the first to understand the mechanisms that ruled the world in the 1930s: the birth of dictatorial regimes and the development of propaganda. This lesson remains true today.