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OUT 7 FEBRUARY

CERTIFICATE 15 DIRECTOR Agnieszka Holland STARRING James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard SCREENPLAY Andrea Chalupa DISTRIBUTOR Signature RUNNING TIME 119 mins

In films from (1990) to (2011), Agnieszka Holland anatomised grim truths about survival during the Holocaust. After detours into American TV (, ) and cine-experimentation (2017’s ), the Polish veteran issues another potent message from history with an uneven but crisply performed, keenly resonant take on the ‘Holodomor’: the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine that killed millions and influenced George Orwell’s .

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