by Mark Murton

Directed by: Agnieszka Holland

Synopsis: Welsh journalist Gareth Jones (James Norton) risks his life to expose the truth about the devastating famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

Kitty Cameo: Jones’s writing is said to have influenced George Owell’s Animal Farm and the film opens with Orwell (Joseph Mawle) working at his typewriter as nearby, seen through a pane of glass, lies a ginger and white tabby cat.

Later in the film we return to Orwell at his typewriter and the cat is seen again, this time sitting outside a window.

Final Mewsings: All animals are equal, but cats are best!

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