WEBVTT 00:00:00.391 --> 00:00:20.391 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. .:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:01:52.415 --> 00:01:54.468 I do not wish to comment on the work... 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:58.695 If it does not speak for itself, it is a failure. 00:01:59.300 --> 00:02:03.516 I wanted to tell a story that could easily be understood by anyone. 00:02:03.517 --> 00:02:06.441 A story so simple even a child could understand it. 00:02:06.975 --> 00:02:09.666 The truth was too strange to tell any other way. 00:02:13.074 --> 00:02:15.197 I was not born for an age like this. 00:02:15.198 --> 00:02:16.198 I'm in. 00:02:18.105 --> 00:02:20.523 The world is being invaded by monsters... 00:02:20.524 --> 00:02:22.641 but I suppose you don't want to hear about that. 00:02:23.499 --> 00:02:25.574 I could be writing romantic novels... 00:02:25.818 --> 00:02:29.354 novels people actually want to read, and maybe in a different age I would. 00:02:30.250 --> 00:02:34.015 But if I tell the story of the monsters through talking farm animals... 00:02:34.016 --> 00:02:37.115 maybe then you will listen, then you will understand. 00:02:37.116 --> 00:02:42.405 The future is at stake so, please read carefully, between the lines. 00:02:49.678 --> 00:02:54.543 Mr. Chairman, from Manor Farm, had locked the hen houses for the night, 00:02:58.073 --> 00:03:00.418 Hitler and Goebbels are both there... 00:03:00.419 --> 00:03:03.062 next thing you know, we're strapped onto Hitler’s plane... 00:03:03.063 --> 00:03:07.793 to Richtoffen. The fastest and most powerful plane in all of Germany. 00:03:07.794 --> 00:03:10.763 On the flight, Goebbels is reading the papers, 00:03:11.126 --> 00:03:15.917 while Hitler, ah.. Hitler... 00:03:15.954 --> 00:03:18.975 studies a map of Europe, 00:03:18.976 --> 00:03:20.483 and I couldn't help but think... 00:03:20.484 --> 00:03:25.887 if this plane should crash, the whole history of Europe would be changed. 00:03:31.144 --> 00:03:34.356 Well... thank you young man for that... 00:03:37.404 --> 00:03:40.740 But the Germans have their own unrest to worry about. 00:03:40.741 --> 00:03:42.742 The Reichstag file is not unrest... 00:03:42.743 --> 00:03:44.852 It was a tactic. 00:03:44.853 --> 00:03:49.859 The Nazis now have an excuse to end all opposition. 00:03:49.860 --> 00:03:51.629 But how can you be so certain? 00:03:52.033 --> 00:03:53.521 Goebbels told me. 00:03:53.522 --> 00:03:58.723 War begins in the minds of men. 00:03:58.724 --> 00:04:02.588 Goebbels believes the Reich will be here for a thousand years, 00:04:02.589 --> 00:04:06.928 which means that they will most certainly expand to the east into Poland. 00:04:06.929 --> 00:04:10.928 The next great war gentlemen, has already begun. 00:04:10.929 --> 00:04:13.229 Herr Hitler will soon learn, 00:04:13.230 --> 00:04:16.371 that there's a great deal of difference between holding a rally... 00:04:16.372 --> 00:04:20.130 and running a country. 00:04:20.131 --> 00:04:27.564 I see Mr. Jones, has told you we are at war. 00:04:31.642 --> 00:04:34.689 Sorry to interrupt, ah, there's a call from Moscow. 00:04:34.690 --> 00:04:35.686 Who is it? 00:04:35.687 --> 00:04:37.962 It's for Mr. Jones. 00:04:39.958 --> 00:04:42.034 If you'll excuse me a moment gentlemen. 00:05:03.409 --> 00:05:04.927 Do you know who it was? 00:05:06.572 --> 00:05:08.711 They were speaking Russian. 00:05:37.338 --> 00:05:38.935 You must go home. 00:05:39.884 --> 00:05:41.753 If you have a home, don't you? 00:05:41.891 --> 00:05:43.314 This is my home. 00:05:48.916 --> 00:05:52.223 I never got to make my main strategic point, which is... 00:05:52.223 --> 00:05:55.725 to resist Hitler, we will need an alliance with Stalin. 00:05:55.578 --> 00:05:58.492 A man who performs miracles. 00:06:01.159 --> 00:06:03.582 Miss Stevenson, do you know how much the Rouble is worth? 00:06:03.824 --> 00:06:04.987 Not very much. 00:06:04.988 --> 00:06:06.918 Global economic collapse. 00:06:06.919 --> 00:06:09.430 Meanwhile the Soviets are having a spending spree. 00:06:09.891 --> 00:06:11.058 How? 00:06:18.978 --> 00:06:22.161 What's the matter? Why have you poured me a cup of Tea? 00:06:24.722 --> 00:06:26.138 I was wrong. 00:06:27.172 --> 00:06:29.011 About your position. 00:06:30.138 --> 00:06:32.556 The cuts are deeper than expected. There's... 00:06:32.557 --> 00:06:34.636 simply no money. 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:38.383 I'm so sorry. 00:06:45.495 --> 00:06:47.831 He's waiting to see you before you go. 00:07:23.115 --> 00:07:25.089 My boy... 00:07:29.585 --> 00:07:32.235 This depression, the casualties... 00:07:32.386 --> 00:07:34.130 It's like another great war. 00:07:35.321 --> 00:07:36.925 Goodbye sir. 00:07:38.472 --> 00:07:40.071 It was an honour to serve you. 00:07:40.072 --> 00:07:44.152 I couldn't have asked for a more brilliant foreign advisor. 00:07:44.153 --> 00:07:45.336 Sir, you... 00:07:45.337 --> 00:07:49.878 you are surrounded by men with decades of experience. But... 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:55.168 it is me you need sir. I'm the only one who tells you the truth. 00:07:55.169 --> 00:08:00.412 No-one else seems to understand the gravity of the situation, sir. 00:08:00.413 --> 00:08:04.866 I took the liberty of writing you a letter of recommendation. 00:08:11.784 --> 00:08:13.126 Thank you sir. 00:08:15.111 --> 00:08:17.417 Ah, this is for you. 00:08:17.418 --> 00:08:19.343 It's not finished, yet. 00:08:19.344 --> 00:08:22.061 It's my report on the Soviet question. 00:08:22.062 --> 00:08:23.666 And what's your answer? 00:08:23.667 --> 00:08:27.235 I don't have one. Stalin isn't returning my calls. 00:08:29.498 --> 00:08:32.334 You could still send me to Moscow. 00:08:32.994 --> 00:08:35.564 Ask him where the money is coming from. 00:08:36.125 --> 00:08:40.396 But what happens after... your conversation with Stalin? 00:08:42.029 --> 00:08:45.070 Ah, I will go back to Wales. 00:08:46.434 --> 00:08:49.432 Teach in my father's school in Barry... 00:08:49.433 --> 00:08:51.737 get married and settle down. 00:08:53.569 --> 00:08:58.941 And then, one day after a long and comfortable life... 00:08:58.942 --> 00:09:00.828 I will wake up screaming. 00:09:01.627 --> 00:09:04.258 I've woken up screaming in Barry myself. 00:09:14.563 --> 00:09:18.631 I'm sure you've woken up most people with your screaming in Barry. 00:09:55.416 --> 00:09:57.023 Everything takes time Mr. Jones. 00:09:57.398 --> 00:10:00.403 Why are you in such a hurry to visit Moscow? 00:10:00.744 --> 00:10:04.113 I... I hear Moscow is beautiful this time of year. 00:10:04.114 --> 00:10:06.198 Yes, much. 00:10:07.783 --> 00:10:09.608 And, you want a press card? 00:10:13.706 --> 00:10:14.702 What's this? 00:10:14.703 --> 00:10:15.814 My article. 00:10:15.815 --> 00:10:18.187 We really need a, a letter from an editor.... 00:10:18.188 --> 00:10:21.638 a three page description of what you will write about Russia, 00:10:21.745 --> 00:10:25.721 copies of all the articles you have written and the address of your publisher. 00:10:25.722 --> 00:10:29.189 I don't have an editor or a publisher. I'm a stringer. 00:10:29.657 --> 00:10:30.936 Freelance. 00:10:29.657 --> 00:10:32.127 Who will be paying for your keep? 00:10:32.710 --> 00:10:33.485 Myself. 00:10:38.078 --> 00:10:41.473 You are not a Journalist. You want to be a Journalist. 00:10:43.932 --> 00:10:46.554 Ah.. 00:10:46.836 --> 00:10:50.737 I... have interviewed Hitler... 00:10:51.568 --> 00:10:54.320 I plan to interview Stalin. 00:10:55.103 --> 00:10:57.762 You're funny Mr. Jones. 00:11:15.983 --> 00:11:20.087 Moscow 71795. 00:11:20.088 --> 00:11:23.814 Moscow 71795. 00:12:13.305 --> 00:12:14.435 Mr.Klebb? 00:12:15.002 --> 00:12:16.588 Yes? - Telephone please. 00:12:16.589 --> 00:12:18.345 OK. Sorry. 00:12:23.225 --> 00:12:25.859 Paul! This is Gareth Jones. In London. 00:12:25.860 --> 00:12:27.937 Listen, I'm on my way to Moscow. 00:12:27.938 --> 00:12:30.168 Gareth, I've been trying to reach you. 00:12:30.169 --> 00:12:31.361 So you're coming here? 00:12:31.362 --> 00:12:35.941 Paul I need your help again, this time arranging an interview with Stalin. 00:12:35.942 --> 00:12:37.313 Please, tell me you know a way. 00:12:37.314 --> 00:12:39.934 Go to Walter Duranty at the New York Times. 00:12:39.935 --> 00:12:41.267 He has influence I'm... 00:12:41.268 --> 00:12:44.367 Here, I am now persona non grata. 00:12:46.149 --> 00:12:49.836 Listen, I really need to talk to you, I found something big. 00:12:49.837 --> 00:12:51.428 You can crack the story wide open. 00:12:51.429 --> 00:12:53.307 It's worse than we thought before. 00:12:54.410 --> 00:12:55.822 Paul? 00:12:57.047 --> 00:12:58.934 Paul? 00:13:21.675 --> 00:13:24.119 Your Visa application has been approved. 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:28.398 And, we have made arrangements for you to be boarded at the Metroplataz. 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:30.039 The Metropol. 00:13:30.718 --> 00:13:38.694 I was going to find an old hotel near the train station but this is much more preferable. 00:13:38.695 --> 00:13:42.112 You register with the British Embassy when you arrive. 00:13:42.113 --> 00:13:44.816 And then you register with the Soviet State Office. 00:13:45.930 --> 00:13:48.251 Failure to register forfeits your Visa. 00:13:48.252 --> 00:13:50.381 Is it understood Mr. Jones? 00:13:58.653 --> 00:14:03.058 I would love to see more of your beautiful country other than just Moscow. 00:14:03.443 --> 00:14:06.489 Right after you interview Stalin. 00:14:07.305 --> 00:14:10.086 Good luck Mr. Jones. 00:15:02.883 --> 00:15:07.407 New building. There was a lovely room here. 00:15:07.408 --> 00:15:10.989 The Soviets have built more in five years than our government can manage in ten. 00:15:12.910 --> 00:15:16.439 You ought to visit factories... British engineers here... 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.178 there's Vickers, you should talk to him. 00:15:18.179 --> 00:15:19.573 I'll do that. 00:15:18.806 --> 00:15:22.317 Where are they hosting you? In the Metropol? - Yes. 00:15:22.357 --> 00:15:24.115 How are things in London? 00:15:24.999 --> 00:15:28.191 Lloyd George and MacDonald solve the economic crises yet? 00:15:29.456 --> 00:15:31.747 They have their best minds on the case. 00:15:31.748 --> 00:15:35.727 Ah ha... and their best minds got us into this mess. Huh? 00:15:38.477 --> 00:15:42.805 What have you heard from the Kremlin about Hitler? 00:15:44.949 --> 00:15:47.526 Did Lloyd George tell you to ask me that? 00:15:47.527 --> 00:15:50.100 Hmm? Hitler make him nervous? 00:15:50.805 --> 00:15:51.840 I'm afraid not. 00:15:55.165 --> 00:15:58.191 Forgive me, we're putting the papers 00:16:02.215 --> 00:16:04.020 I read your article. 00:16:05.456 --> 00:16:08.470 You think Hitler really believes the things he said? 00:16:08.217 --> 00:16:11.881 Lots of people say that he's deranged. 00:16:12.145 --> 00:16:14.005 What is deranged? 00:16:14.006 --> 00:16:16.402 In a deranged world, hmm? 00:16:16.403 --> 00:16:20.077 There's talk in London we're headed to war. 00:16:20.418 --> 00:16:22.746 Britain can't support another war. 00:16:22.846 --> 00:16:24.402 Can the Soviets? 00:16:24.820 --> 00:16:29.070 British engineers, new factories. How is Stalin paying for it all? 00:16:29.071 --> 00:16:30.866 Money I suppose. 00:16:32.259 --> 00:16:34.618 They've not paid for it in Roubles. 00:16:34.619 --> 00:16:35.335 Mr. Duranty. 00:16:35.336 --> 00:16:38.356 You know how rich this country is. How vast. 00:16:39.062 --> 00:16:42.381 Out of nothing but wheat fields. 00:16:43.069 --> 00:16:44.433 Grain is Stalin’s gold. 00:16:47.059 --> 00:16:49.469 That's a lot of grain. 00:16:50.013 --> 00:16:52.371 In a five year plan, that's more than double in their output. 00:17:07.384 --> 00:17:10.076 Why are you really here, Mr. Jones? 00:17:14.258 --> 00:17:18.877 I need your help arranging an interview with Stalin. 00:17:20.465 --> 00:17:21.359 Mmm. 00:17:22.808 --> 00:17:24.875 Are you 27, 28? 00:17:25.278 --> 00:17:26.715 Does it matter? 00:17:26.716 --> 00:17:31.114 Have you become so accustomed to weekends in the country with Lloyd George that... 00:17:31.115 --> 00:17:34.399 you think you can take tea with just any head of state? 00:17:35.979 --> 00:17:39.783 I have no expectations. I just have questions. 00:17:40.401 --> 00:17:43.111 The numbers just don't add up. The Kremlin is broke, so... 00:17:43.112 --> 00:17:46.670 how are the Soviets suddenly on a spending spree? Who is providing the finance? 00:17:48.562 --> 00:17:53.220 Forgive me. The fact that I have more questions than answers for you makes me nervous. 00:17:53.221 --> 00:17:54.209 hmm. 00:17:59.150 --> 00:18:00.848 Who got you on the plane with Hitler? 00:18:02.747 --> 00:18:04.262 I had help. 00:18:05.718 --> 00:18:07.116 From a journalist. 00:18:18.917 --> 00:18:22.142 It was Paul Klebb who helped me get on Hitler's plane. 00:18:22.143 --> 00:18:24.768 He tipped me off where he would be and when. 00:18:31.170 --> 00:18:33.460 Actually I... I have to go, ahh... 00:18:33.461 --> 00:18:36.847 He's staying in the Metropol I'm... hoping to catch him this evening. 00:18:36.848 --> 00:18:39.012 This is good. More of this. 00:18:44.246 --> 00:18:46.067 She's my star. 00:18:47.516 --> 00:18:49.021 I depend on her. 00:19:00.577 --> 00:19:02.217 Paul Klebb is dead. 00:19:04.391 --> 00:19:06.598 A robbery three days ago. 00:19:07.269 --> 00:19:08.654 You didn't know? 00:19:12.496 --> 00:19:13.652 No. 00:19:14.702 --> 00:19:15.586 Hmm. 00:19:20.648 --> 00:19:21.992 Did you know him well? 00:19:23.620 --> 00:19:26.215 We met in Berlin ah... 00:19:26.216 --> 00:19:29.769 He was a friend. 00:19:33.381 --> 00:19:35.089 Where did it.. where did it happen? 00:19:36.309 --> 00:19:38.492 Outside the Metropol. 00:19:41.681 --> 00:19:45.406 Having some people over this evening. Journalists mostly. Care to join? 00:19:48.689 --> 00:19:52.390 Ahh.. yes, yes of course. 00:19:54.598 --> 00:19:56.026 Ahh thank you. 00:21:05.167 --> 00:21:06.396 Welcome. 00:21:07.760 --> 00:21:09.025 Mr. Jones? 00:21:16.411 --> 00:21:18.551 You are staying tonight. 00:21:18.902 --> 00:21:21.804 Ahh.. no, I'm here for one week. 00:21:22.426 --> 00:21:23.944 I was told tonight. 00:21:24.858 --> 00:21:30.001 My, my Visa is for one week, ah.. It says so on the stamp. 00:21:30.610 --> 00:21:33.010 We're full that many nights. 00:21:33.209 --> 00:21:35.891 Metropol is holding a conference. 00:21:38.858 --> 00:21:42.714 Ah.. do you know another hotel nearby? 00:21:42.949 --> 00:21:47.761 I'm afraid you're only authorised to stay here. Only for tonight. 00:21:51.323 --> 00:21:54.074 Ah.. right then. Tonight. 00:22:21.891 --> 00:22:24.016 Hey, what's going down here? 00:22:26.183 --> 00:22:28.599 Oh, the hotel is on high alert. 00:22:29.474 --> 00:22:30.933 There was a robbery. 00:22:31.266 --> 00:22:34.266 Cushny's very worried. There's top security round here. 00:22:35.558 --> 00:22:36.849 Where you from? 00:22:37.099 --> 00:22:38.141 Wales. 00:22:38.433 --> 00:22:39.933 Are you here for the Western Mail? 00:22:40.183 --> 00:22:41.641 Stringer. 00:22:42.099 --> 00:22:44.141 Eugene Lyons, United Press. 00:22:44.391 --> 00:22:45.474 Yes, I know. 00:22:45.641 --> 00:22:46.683 Gareth Jones. 00:22:46.849 --> 00:22:50.891 I enjoyed your articles on the construction of the electrical grid. 00:22:51.099 --> 00:22:53.599 You must know Metro Vickers finest... 00:22:53.933 --> 00:22:58.141 - L.C. Thornton, John Cushny - How do you do. - Hello. 00:22:58.558 --> 00:23:02.391 Is Metro Vickers holding a conference in the hotel this week? 00:23:02.974 --> 00:23:04.058 No. 00:23:04.349 --> 00:23:05.766 Who gave you that idea? 00:23:05.974 --> 00:23:08.642 Come on, I look like I could use a drink! 00:23:08.934 --> 00:23:12.975 Why do you look so familiar? Doesn't he look familiar, Lyons. 00:23:13.600 --> 00:23:16.184 You're that Welsh chappie that interviewed Hitler! 00:23:16.434 --> 00:23:18.600 You're definitely coming with us. 00:23:18.767 --> 00:23:23.309 Everybody comes to Duranty's, the best party's in Moscow. 00:23:31.069 --> 00:23:34.146 Oh hey, I see you guys have got started without us... 00:23:34.147 --> 00:23:36.228 the party's already in full swing. 00:24:07.017 --> 00:24:12.642 He told me he was persona non grata with the regime. Do you know why? 00:24:15.475 --> 00:24:17.600 Did you know what he was working on? 00:24:17.850 --> 00:24:20.350 There's not much else to do here is there? 00:24:20.600 --> 00:24:23.100 When you're not allowed to leave Moscow. 00:24:23.267 --> 00:24:26.725 And what kind of reporting can you do confines you? 00:24:27.725 --> 00:24:31.559 Wait... journalists are confined to Moscow? 00:24:31.725 --> 00:24:33.475 For protection? 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:36.184 Yeah, that's right! 00:24:36.642 --> 00:24:39.643 What are they... are they paranoid about spies? 00:24:40.685 --> 00:24:44.935 Have you ever read Edgar Alan Poe's The Mask of the Red Death? 00:24:48.560 --> 00:24:52.268 The Mask of the Red Death. Have you read it? - No. 00:24:52.685 --> 00:24:55.185 Get a copy before they ban it. 00:24:57.351 --> 00:24:59.060 Do you know... 00:24:59.976 --> 00:25:02.685 Do you know where the money is coming from? 00:25:03.018 --> 00:25:06.643 Duranty said grain is Stalin's gold. 00:25:06.851 --> 00:25:10.851 Grain is Stalin's gold? Duranty actually said that? 00:25:11.851 --> 00:25:13.893 That's a hell of a line! 00:25:14.143 --> 00:25:18.560 Ask him why he never bothered to use it in print. Muggeridge, Barnes, come over here! 00:25:18.726 --> 00:25:21.143 Lloyd George wants an interview! 00:25:21.393 --> 00:25:22.601 Malcolm Muggeridge. 00:25:22.768 --> 00:25:24.393 - Let's dance! - Gareth Jones. 00:25:32.560 --> 00:25:34.851 Have you met Bonnie? 00:25:37.518 --> 00:25:39.351 So you inject it yourself? 00:25:39.850 --> 00:25:41.935 Just like a nurse would? 00:25:42.560 --> 00:25:44.643 You wanna try some? 00:25:45.310 --> 00:25:46.518 What's it like? 00:25:50.560 --> 00:25:52.143 It's like... 00:25:55.060 --> 00:25:56.935 being in the arms of God. 00:25:59.976 --> 00:26:02.685 "The Light Whose Name is Splendour.” 00:26:03.310 --> 00:26:04.726 What'd you say, honey? 00:26:04.976 --> 00:26:06.685 Oh, it's ah... 00:26:06.976 --> 00:26:09.185 It's an old Welsh poem. 00:26:09.394 --> 00:26:11.227 "Battle of the Trees”. 00:26:11.436 --> 00:26:12.644 Yes! 00:26:14.102 --> 00:26:15.936 It's like poetry! 00:26:21.894 --> 00:26:25.519 - Are you sure? - No, no, I'm... thank you. 00:26:27.811 --> 00:26:29.436 Why don't you give it to me then. 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:31.061 - O no, ah... - You won't hurt me. 00:26:31.144 --> 00:26:35.352 - You just have to be gentle. - O no, that's quite alright. 00:28:01.145 --> 00:28:02.937 Leaving so soon? 00:28:06.937 --> 00:28:08.520 Mr. Duranty... 00:28:09.895 --> 00:28:11.395 Mr. Jones... 00:28:12.562 --> 00:28:14.770 Did you enjoy yourself? 00:28:17.478 --> 00:28:21.645 I can honestly say that I've, never seen anything quite like it. 00:28:22.270 --> 00:28:25.353 Is Bonnie alright, not quite to your taste? 00:28:26.103 --> 00:28:27.603 Pardon me? 00:28:27.770 --> 00:28:31.937 Perhaps, perhaps you would prefer... her? 00:28:35.062 --> 00:28:36.478 I came... 00:28:37.228 --> 00:28:39.062 Sorry, thank you. 00:28:40.728 --> 00:28:43.395 I came here to work, Mr. Duranty. 00:28:45.478 --> 00:28:47.270 There's nothing to be ashamed of. 00:28:48.895 --> 00:28:51.603 You can do whatever you like here. 00:28:55.645 --> 00:29:01.978 It's ah... curious, that the Kremlin confines journalists to Moscow. 00:29:03.728 --> 00:29:05.228 Thank you. 00:29:07.353 --> 00:29:08.770 You don't drink. 00:29:09.020 --> 00:29:11.604 You don't appreciate the gorgeous girls at my party, 00:29:12.104 --> 00:29:16.396 You are rather dull, Mr. Jones. 00:29:19.021 --> 00:29:21.646 There are other things in life, I suppose. 00:29:22.729 --> 00:29:24.146 Such as? 00:29:26.178 --> 00:29:27.399 Well, ah... 00:29:28.396 --> 00:29:34.896 I'm standing opposite a completely naked Pulitzer Prize Winner. My life can.. can't be the boring can it! 00:29:37.771 --> 00:29:40.146 Come here. I'm gonna show you.. 00:29:42.813 --> 00:29:44.438 My son... 00:29:47.103 --> 00:29:49.396 refuses to learn English, 00:29:51.978 --> 00:29:53.688 proud Russian. 00:29:58.646 --> 00:30:00.063 Alright... 00:30:00.604 --> 00:30:04.229 Goodnight, Mr. Jones, get home safely. 00:30:07.271 --> 00:30:09.479 Goodnight, Mr. Duranty. 00:30:21.063 --> 00:30:22.271 Hey. 00:30:22.979 --> 00:30:24.688 Were you at Duranty's? 00:30:25.021 --> 00:30:26.229 Yes. 00:30:27.604 --> 00:30:33.229 Do you mind running this upstairs and leaving this on his desk? It's like the opium den up there isn't it. 00:30:36.228 --> 00:30:37.521 Hey! 00:30:38.188 --> 00:30:40.604 His office is third door to the left. 00:30:42.814 --> 00:30:46.605 - I couldn't help myself. I took a quick look at your article. - Did you...? 00:30:46.855 --> 00:30:48.522 - But... - Shh... 00:30:56.147 --> 00:30:57.647 Who is that? 00:30:58.314 --> 00:31:00.439 That's my 'big brother'. 00:31:03.272 --> 00:31:05.605 I thought it was well written. 00:31:05.980 --> 00:31:07.272 Thank you. 00:31:09.022 --> 00:31:13.314 I'm interested in your reporting on Stalin’s new tanks and plane factories. 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:17.522 It's the Americans. Duranty's trying to lure them here. 00:31:17.939 --> 00:31:20.314 So Duranty's playing peacemaker? 00:31:20.564 --> 00:31:23.897 The Revolution won't succeed without foreign investment. 00:31:24.189 --> 00:31:27.272 - The British Government is here. - That's not enough. 00:31:27.439 --> 00:31:29.564 The Americans need to see they can make money here. 00:31:29.939 --> 00:31:33.022 Washington's boycott will finally be over. 00:31:33.772 --> 00:31:37.230 And the Revolution will be well on its way again. 00:31:37.939 --> 00:31:40.397 What other choice do we have? 00:31:41.022 --> 00:31:44.355 I just didn't think that Duranty had an agenda. 00:31:44.855 --> 00:31:49.022 Or that he was advising the President of the United States. 00:31:55.564 --> 00:31:57.730 Did you know, Paul Klebb? 00:32:01.397 --> 00:32:03.355 Everyone knew Paul. 00:32:03.647 --> 00:32:06.897 Do you happen to know what he was working on? 00:32:13.690 --> 00:32:16.481 Here's my door, goodnight. 00:32:16.731 --> 00:32:17.773 Ada! 00:32:17.981 --> 00:32:19.148 It's my first night. 00:32:19.481 --> 00:32:22.105 Care to join me in a bowl of borscht? 00:32:22.190 --> 00:32:23.024 No. 00:32:25.273 --> 00:32:26.815 Good luck in Moscow. 00:32:45.190 --> 00:32:46.231 Good morning. 00:32:46.773 --> 00:32:48.523 May I come in? 00:32:48.981 --> 00:32:50.773 I'm on deadline. 00:32:51.565 --> 00:32:53.773 What are you working on? 00:32:54.231 --> 00:32:56.106 I'm researching a story on 00:32:56.315 --> 00:32:59.523 agricultural output collectivisation of former agrarian systems. 00:32:59.690 --> 00:33:00.898 That sounds fascinating! 00:33:01.481 --> 00:33:03.565 What are your sources? 00:33:16.523 --> 00:33:18.481 I don't have much time for... 00:33:18.898 --> 00:33:20.440 Is there something I can help you with? 00:33:23.023 --> 00:33:25.523 My sources tell me you're foreign affairs advisor to Lloyd George. 00:33:25.648 --> 00:33:27.565 - Is that not the case anymore? - I am. 00:33:29.898 --> 00:33:31.190 You've been checking up on me! 00:33:31.273 --> 00:33:34.230 Look. I really need to get back to my work. I've got a thing about deadlines! 00:33:34.355 --> 00:33:35.940 What do you want? 00:33:37.065 --> 00:33:39.856 The story no-one is talking about. 00:33:40.606 --> 00:33:43.606 I can see for myself numbers, they don't add up.. 00:33:43.898 --> 00:33:45.982 There is a story here. 00:33:46.774 --> 00:33:49.066 I think, Paul was on to it. 00:34:07.982 --> 00:34:10.149 Don't say anything, just listen. 00:34:17.191 --> 00:34:20.982 Paul was working on a story that, he was afraid to talk about. 00:34:21.607 --> 00:34:23.857 I spoke to Paul the day he was murdered. 00:34:24.107 --> 00:34:26.774 He sounded like he needed to talk. 00:34:27.149 --> 00:34:29.399 Do you have any idea what? 00:34:31.024 --> 00:34:32.982 He was so stubborn. 00:34:34.149 --> 00:34:35.982 Paul, the Apostle. 00:34:38.857 --> 00:34:40.066 I saw him. 00:34:40.316 --> 00:34:42.566 Before Bert sent him packing. 00:34:44.149 --> 00:34:46.441 (And then he got a bullet in him.) 00:34:48.066 --> 00:34:50.899 And you don't think it was a robbery. 00:34:52.774 --> 00:34:54.441 What was Paul working on? 00:34:56.566 --> 00:34:59.566 Come on tell me? What was Paul working on? 00:35:03.649 --> 00:35:05.232 The Ukraine. 00:35:07.649 --> 00:35:09.357 Stalin's Gold... 00:35:13.982 --> 00:35:17.067 And journalists aren't allowed in Ukraine. 00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:23.733 That's where he was headed the day he was shot. 00:35:36.358 --> 00:35:38.150 You're not Paul. 00:35:39.025 --> 00:35:40.817 Go home, Gareth. 00:36:52.193 --> 00:36:56.901 Mr. Jones, my former foreign advisor... 00:37:29.693 --> 00:37:33.318 - Can I use your typewriter? - Why? 00:37:33.943 --> 00:37:35.943 I left mine at home. 00:37:56.234 --> 00:37:57.776 You write poetry? 00:37:58.443 --> 00:38:02.984 - Do you always go where you're not wanted? - Read me one of your poems! 00:38:05.234 --> 00:38:07.526 My mother used to read me poetry. 00:38:07.693 --> 00:38:09.651 Welsh poems mostly. 00:38:11.026 --> 00:38:13.609 "I know the light whose name is splendour, 00:38:13.776 --> 00:38:19.194 and the number of the ruling lights, that scatter rays of fire high above the deep.” 00:38:21.069 --> 00:38:23.610 It's ah.. "Battle of the Trees”. 00:38:26.444 --> 00:38:27.444 You've got five minutes. 00:38:27.610 --> 00:38:28.860 I only need one. 00:38:37.319 --> 00:38:42.444 Mr. Jones, my valued, foreign advisor... 00:39:13.194 --> 00:39:16.152 I am going to Ukraine. 00:39:37.485 --> 00:39:39.319 - Eat! Eat! - Thank you. 00:39:39.485 --> 00:39:41.944 - Caviar? - No, thank you. 00:39:42.235 --> 00:39:44.569 - Wine? - I don't drink. 00:39:46.569 --> 00:39:49.111 Thank you for seeing me at such short notice. 00:39:49.361 --> 00:39:54.403 Nonsense! Lloyd George's foreign advisor is Moscow’s honour to receive you! 00:39:54.945 --> 00:39:56.236 But... 00:39:56.695 --> 00:40:00.028 it is very odd, if you don't mind me saying so, 00:40:00.611 --> 00:40:03.695 that you have requested a press visa, 00:40:04.070 --> 00:40:05.486 not a diplomatic one. 00:40:05.778 --> 00:40:09.695 Why would Lloyd George's foreign advisor come to Moscow as a journalist? 00:40:12.278 --> 00:40:13.278 What, what's this? 00:40:13.445 --> 00:40:16.736 A letter of introduction from my employer, Lloyd George. 00:40:18.903 --> 00:40:22.736 Relations between our two countries has finally normalized. 00:40:22.903 --> 00:40:25.903 We have our best engineers here, Metro Vickers helping you power your factories. 00:40:26.070 --> 00:40:28.403 I hope I can speak freely, friend to friend. 00:40:28.570 --> 00:40:29.820 Sure. 00:40:33.195 --> 00:40:35.861 It was Lloyd George who arranged that interview with Hitler, 00:40:36.028 --> 00:40:38.903 and it confirmed our worse fears. 00:40:39.423 --> 00:40:45.653 I ah.. I came as a journalist so as not to attract attention from the Germans. 00:40:46.528 --> 00:40:54.695 There is... concern in London that... the Soviet Union would not be able to defend itself should Hitler attack. 00:40:54.945 --> 00:40:56.195 Attack? 00:40:56.736 --> 00:40:59.820 You read the same papers we do. You have your agents in Germany. 00:40:59.986 --> 00:41:02.945 They're all hearing the same thing, are they not? 00:41:03.153 --> 00:41:06.820 If we are to contain Hitler, we must open two fronts. 00:41:08.403 --> 00:41:10.445 Can you hold the Eastern Front? 00:41:14.028 --> 00:41:15.528 Mr. Jones... 00:41:16.153 --> 00:41:18.736 Metro Vickers may be qualified to build up our factories, 00:41:18.903 --> 00:41:23.279 but they are nothing compared to the engineers, Soviet engineers. 00:41:23.904 --> 00:41:28.029 We have building new planes and tanks in Kharkov. 00:41:28.196 --> 00:41:30.154 - Stalin... - In Ukraine? 00:41:30.654 --> 00:41:32.237 - What? - In Ukraine? 00:41:32.404 --> 00:41:34.612 Yes, Yes, in Ukraine. 00:41:39.362 --> 00:41:40.737 In fact! 00:41:42.654 --> 00:41:47.904 Mr. Jones, why don't you see for yourself! I would be happy to arrange a trip for you, 00:41:48.529 --> 00:41:54.446 to see just how prepared we are.. for an attack from the Germans! 00:41:55.029 --> 00:41:56.779 or the British. 00:41:59.112 --> 00:42:01.321 Paul gave me this before he left. 00:42:01.487 --> 00:42:03.987 All the information is there, where he was going. 00:42:05.404 --> 00:42:07.737 Wanted me to have it in case he never made it back. 00:42:39.404 --> 00:42:41.154 Want some tea? 00:42:48.654 --> 00:42:50.780 How goes the agenda now? 00:42:53.697 --> 00:42:55.863 I don't have an agenda. 00:42:56.697 --> 00:42:59.363 Unless you call truth, an agenda. 00:42:59.613 --> 00:43:01.655 Yes, but whose truth? 00:43:02.738 --> 00:43:07.363 - The truth. There is only one kind. - You're so naive. 00:43:07.780 --> 00:43:12.738 Journalism is the noblest profession, you follow the facts, wherever it leads. 00:43:13.238 --> 00:43:14.488 You don't take sides. 00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:19.280 My father is in the Foreign Service. 00:43:19.447 --> 00:43:23.655 I grew up mostly in Berlin. There's no place like it, the freedom of art and music and culture 00:43:23.822 --> 00:43:28.655 and Nazis destroying everything. So quickly. And I'm afraid for... 00:43:30.863 --> 00:43:31.988 I'm... 00:43:32.238 --> 00:43:33.822 I'm afraid for my friends.. 00:43:34.613 --> 00:43:37.863 They're arresting everyone in the Communist Party. We have to succeed. We don't have a choice. 00:43:38.030 --> 00:43:40.030 You sound like you work for Stalin. 00:43:40.197 --> 00:43:44.030 I don't work for Stalin. I believe in a movement that's bigger than one person. 00:43:44.363 --> 00:43:46.405 What if you're wrong? 00:43:47.363 --> 00:43:50.030 That's just not another option, is it? 00:43:51.072 --> 00:43:54.947 Look there are cycles of history just like thee are cycles of nature. 00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:59.197 There's been nothing but war and depression, and now... is a chance to rebuild... 00:43:59.363 --> 00:44:03.780 their fight for the future, a future for the people, the weak, the workers - and that's what the Soviets are doing. 00:44:03.947 --> 00:44:08.447 Do you believe in the state that put four bullets in your friend's back? 00:44:08.822 --> 00:44:10.072 No... 00:44:10.613 --> 00:44:13.905 I believe that this movement is bigger than any of us. 00:44:14.072 --> 00:44:17.988 Paul Klebb was a human sacrifice... Do you hear yourself? 00:44:45.781 --> 00:44:46.989 Tea? 00:44:54.156 --> 00:44:56.656 I'll go make us some more tea. 00:45:04.781 --> 00:45:08.531 The most magnificent musical instrument ever invented. 00:45:08.739 --> 00:45:10.323 It's so odd. 00:45:12.989 --> 00:45:16.198 - Oh, wait... - That's it... 00:45:16.906 --> 00:45:19.698 - And that's the song? - Yes, that's the song, yeah. 00:45:19.864 --> 00:45:22.448 The only song I can play. 00:45:23.364 --> 00:45:26.531 My mother didn't bring much back but this is what she.... 00:45:26.698 --> 00:45:28.781 Did she teach English in Ukraine? 00:45:28.989 --> 00:45:32.489 - Stalino? - It was Hughesovka back then. 00:45:33.656 --> 00:45:35.031 In fact... 00:45:35.864 --> 00:45:38.781 Klebb's map takes me, to where she once lived. 00:45:38.948 --> 00:45:41.614 My mother died when I was eleven. 00:45:44.156 --> 00:45:45.781 In her sleep. 00:45:47.448 --> 00:45:49.781 I think she killed herself. 00:45:53.407 --> 00:45:57.782 - If you met my father, you'd understand why. - Your father still stationed in Berlin? 00:45:57.990 --> 00:45:59.282 That town. 00:46:00.782 --> 00:46:02.990 That's where I met Paul. 00:46:07.740 --> 00:46:09.657 Come with me, Ada. 00:46:10.115 --> 00:46:12.532 Come and see where my mother lived. 00:46:12.782 --> 00:46:15.574 And find the fondness in your heart. 00:47:44.200 --> 00:47:45.200 Ada... 00:47:49.200 --> 00:47:50.575 No, don't go. 00:47:59.200 --> 00:48:00.741 No, just go. 00:48:03.325 --> 00:48:04.325 Go now. 00:48:58.951 --> 00:49:00.784 We're in Ukraine. 00:49:04.284 --> 00:49:05.534 Oh yeah. 00:49:06.326 --> 00:49:08.242 How did you know that? 00:49:09.409 --> 00:49:12.159 My mother spent some time here 00:51:15.160 --> 00:51:17.660 I ah... I just, ah... 00:53:07.494 --> 00:53:10.953 There, comrade is the answer to all our problems. 00:53:11.161 --> 00:53:14.619 It is summed up in a single word... man. 00:53:17.703 --> 00:53:20.453 Man is the only real enemy we have. 00:53:21.536 --> 00:53:23.703 Remove man from the scene, 00:53:23.953 --> 00:53:28.162 and the root cause of hunger, and rule of work is abolished forever. 01:20:39.388 --> 01:20:41.888 Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer 01:20:42.053 --> 01:20:44.722 without making the animals themselves any richer - 01:20:46.804 --> 01:20:50.222 except of course... the pigs and dogs. 01:20:51.429 --> 01:20:53.054 All animals are equal, 01:20:55.804 --> 01:20:58.929 but some animals are more equal than others. 01:22:07.679 --> 01:22:09.054 - Six engineers. - Six? 01:22:25.889 --> 01:22:29.140 Are you aware that London might see this as an act of war? 01:22:29.555 --> 01:22:31.805 - What about Washington! - We don't want any questions. 01:22:31.890 --> 01:22:33.515 What do you mean?! No questions? 01:23:23.140 --> 01:23:24.515 Mr. Cushny? 01:24:01.641 --> 01:24:03.266 Mr. Jones... 01:24:03.891 --> 01:24:08.599 I'm surprised, Lloyd George would risk his foreign advisor. 01:24:09.974 --> 01:24:11.516 He didn't. 01:24:12.765 --> 01:24:13.974 No? 01:24:14.766 --> 01:24:17.765 Are you saying, we should release you? 01:24:18.474 --> 01:24:22.181 What about the engineers? Should we release them too? 01:24:23.224 --> 01:24:24.974 This is what we'll do: 01:24:25.224 --> 01:24:29.724 We will send you back to Lloyd George, but we will keep the other spies. 01:24:29.931 --> 01:24:34.724 And when Lloyd George's foreign advisor returns to England and tells the truth 01:24:34.931 --> 01:24:36.681 about what he saw, 01:24:37.016 --> 01:24:39.224 your engineers will live. 01:24:41.931 --> 01:24:43.431 Mr. Jones... 01:24:45.641 --> 01:24:48.806 Did you enjoy your trip to the country-side? 01:24:58.516 --> 01:24:59.681 Good. 01:25:00.849 --> 01:25:03.641 You saw the happy and proud farmers? 01:25:04.349 --> 01:25:07.849 The remarkable efficiency of our collective farms? 01:25:10.181 --> 01:25:14.349 And any rumours of a famine, are just that, simply rumours. 01:25:14.516 --> 01:25:16.266 What are they? 01:25:19.932 --> 01:25:21.725 - Rumours. - And...? 01:25:25.682 --> 01:25:27.642 There is no famine. 01:25:28.350 --> 01:25:29.682 And repeat! 01:25:32.307 --> 01:25:34.807 There is no famine. 01:25:38.057 --> 01:25:39.057 Good. 01:25:41.142 --> 01:25:42.807 As you know... 01:25:43.267 --> 01:25:47.100 There are those that would like to see, our revolution fail. 01:25:47.225 --> 01:25:48.932 But we won't let that happen. 01:25:49.600 --> 01:25:51.557 Will we Mr. Jones? 01:25:54.225 --> 01:25:56.100 - No. - I've arranged your passage home. 01:25:56.475 --> 01:25:58.642 We have your suitcase here for you. 01:26:44.725 --> 01:26:46.225 Mr. Jones... 01:26:48.851 --> 01:26:51.933 I'll have you know, I convinced them to let you go. 01:26:53.976 --> 01:26:56.976 You don't deserve to be in a prison, for your bravery. 01:26:57.143 --> 01:26:59.308 You knew, Mr. Duranty. 01:27:00.058 --> 01:27:01.558 You what? 01:27:05.643 --> 01:27:07.643 How much is Stalin paying you? 01:27:10.601 --> 01:27:14.018 What's keeping you here, lying for them? 01:27:16.101 --> 01:27:22.768 You wouldn't know, the first thing about how difficult it is to report for Moscow today, would you? 01:27:23.143 --> 01:27:26.726 Of course not, you're just a child. 01:27:30.308 --> 01:27:34.976 It is not the job of a journalist to say: "How dare you sir”. 01:27:37.183 --> 01:27:42.933 You actually thought, you could interview Stalin and make some kind of difference didn't you? 01:27:44.143 --> 01:27:46.351 A souvenir from my trip. 01:27:47.143 --> 01:27:51.433 - Tree bark... It's all the people have left to eat. - Alright... 01:27:54.226 --> 01:27:56.058 You can put it next to your Pulitzer. 01:28:02.393 --> 01:28:04.351 My dear Mr. Jones... 01:28:05.558 --> 01:28:08.476 There comes a time in every man's life, 01:28:08.768 --> 01:28:11.933 when he must choose a course... greater than himself, 01:28:12.058 --> 01:28:15.643 than all his miserable little ambitions put together. 01:28:15.976 --> 01:28:18.058 Perhaps someday you will. 01:28:18.308 --> 01:28:21.269 It's a shame! You would have made a fine journalist. 01:28:48.184 --> 01:28:51.934 Well, I guess now, the censors are gonna be really busy! 01:28:52.727 --> 01:28:55.268 Just wait.... a few days. 01:29:00.144 --> 01:29:01.352 Ada! 01:30:00.853 --> 01:30:02.810 There he is. Jones! 01:30:07.145 --> 01:30:11.060 You look great. Good to see you! I want you to meet my newest published author. 01:30:11.685 --> 01:30:13.895 - What do I call you now? - Eric Blair. 01:30:14.103 --> 01:30:15.020 Gareth Jones. 01:30:15.185 --> 01:30:18.060 You won't find Blair on the bookshelf. 01:30:18.810 --> 01:30:20.478 You have to look for "Orwell”. 01:30:20.645 --> 01:30:21.770 George Orwell. 01:30:21.935 --> 01:30:23.728 After the river. 01:30:27.478 --> 01:30:28.978 Thank you. 01:30:34.810 --> 01:30:37.978 - I think Mr. Jones needs a drink. - He doesn't drink. 01:30:40.228 --> 01:30:43.185 I think you're my only client, who doesn't. 01:30:43.394 --> 01:30:45.270 Then he might actually get some work done. 01:30:45.645 --> 01:30:47.395 One of us must. 01:30:48.728 --> 01:30:51.603 - We're not a charity Leonard. - Nonsense! 01:30:52.185 --> 01:30:54.978 "Down and Out in Paris and London” will be a sensation. 01:30:55.228 --> 01:30:58.435 Leonard tells me, you're working on a book about the Soviet Union. 01:31:00.414 --> 01:31:05.270 Oh, I've... I've been using that line for some time I'm afraid. 01:31:12.685 --> 01:31:17.020 I... I do have a story... 01:31:18.685 --> 01:31:23.311 but if I tell it, six innocent men will die. 01:31:23.479 --> 01:31:26.061 - What men? - The British engineers. 01:31:29.979 --> 01:31:33.186 But if I write the story, 01:31:33.770 --> 01:31:36.521 millions of lives may be saved. 01:31:37.811 --> 01:31:39.104 I think, ah... 01:31:39.646 --> 01:31:41.436 you speak the truth. 01:31:41.604 --> 01:31:48.646 Regardless of the consequences it is... your duty and... it is our right to... to hear you. 01:31:50.061 --> 01:31:51.311 It's just common sense isn't it? 01:31:51.561 --> 01:31:54.354 The six British citizens whom I believe are innocent, 01:31:54.521 --> 01:31:57.021 are being held as bargaining chips by Moscow. 01:31:57.436 --> 01:32:00.146 If we in the West, fold to this blackmail, 01:32:00.396 --> 01:32:04.436 we are, potentially allowing unprecedented catastrophe. 01:32:07.729 --> 01:32:11.936 The Soviet Union is not the worker's paradise that was promised. 01:32:13.021 --> 01:32:17.354 It is not the 'Great Experiment' you read about in the press. 01:32:18.354 --> 01:32:22.021 Stalin has no stunning new achievement. 01:32:23.021 --> 01:32:28.604 Unless you consider, killing millions of innocent people an achievement. 01:32:30.021 --> 01:32:31.811 Make no mistake. 01:32:32.729 --> 01:32:36.896 If we let him get away with this man made famine, 01:32:38.229 --> 01:32:40.396 there will be others like him... 01:32:45.146 --> 01:32:46.771 Thank you very much. 01:33:12.147 --> 01:33:13.855 Quite a story. 01:33:17.772 --> 01:33:20.437 Maybe The Soviets are doing the best they can, 01:33:21.312 --> 01:33:23.647 making the best decisions they can... 01:33:24.230 --> 01:33:26.272 given the circumstances. 01:33:27.647 --> 01:33:29.647 What about their free schools? 01:33:29.812 --> 01:33:31.812 Free hospitals? 01:33:32.937 --> 01:33:34.772 Yes, but at what cost? 01:33:37.605 --> 01:33:41.605 A more egalitarian study does exist, it's just not perfect, we.. 01:33:41.772 --> 01:33:44.730 We can't expect it to be, experiments take time to gel. 01:33:44.897 --> 01:33:46.812 An egalitarian society... 01:33:49.105 --> 01:33:51.812 It's the same system of exploitation that exists here, 01:33:52.730 --> 01:33:54.272 only it's worse. 01:33:55.730 --> 01:33:57.687 Unimaginably worse. 01:33:58.397 --> 01:34:00.605 - I know what I saw. - Of course you do... 01:34:02.312 --> 01:34:04.897 Of course you do, but... 01:34:05.437 --> 01:34:08.355 But one has to put it in the proper context. 01:34:08.605 --> 01:34:09.812 Listen to me. 01:34:10.522 --> 01:34:13.312 Stalin is not the man, who you think he is. 01:34:19.772 --> 01:34:22.312 Are you saying, there's no hope? 01:34:39.523 --> 01:34:42.773 Why didn't the New York Times break the famine story? 01:34:43.023 --> 01:34:49.773 Consider the source: Lloyd George's aid comes out with this now in the middle of all this business with the British engineers. 01:34:50.523 --> 01:34:52.188 What are you hearing? 01:34:52.481 --> 01:34:55.648 It's all over-blown, hysteria. 01:34:57.148 --> 01:35:01.898 - What does London want. Another war? - You'll get to the bottom of this? 01:35:02.188 --> 01:35:05.188 - Of course. - We need it tomorrow. 01:35:32.523 --> 01:35:34.398 Just as that moment, 01:35:34.648 --> 01:35:36.106 as though at a signal, 01:35:36.398 --> 01:35:38.898 all the sheep burst out, in tremendous bleating, 01:35:39.106 --> 01:35:42.106 "Four legs good, two legs better!” 01:35:43.273 --> 01:35:46.481 Went on for five minutes without stopping. 01:35:46.731 --> 01:35:49.231 By the time the sheep has quieted down, 01:35:49.481 --> 01:35:52.648 the chance to utter any protest passed, 01:35:53.188 --> 01:35:56.732 for the pigs had marched back into the farmhouse... 01:36:00.689 --> 01:36:03.564 - Mr. Duranty's waiting for me. 01:36:31.939 --> 01:36:36.189 He knows, if you ever decide to leave, they won't let you take them with you. 01:36:36.524 --> 01:36:39.357 They'll hold them here. As ransom. 01:36:39.564 --> 01:36:42.939 Along with anything else, The Kremlin has on you. 01:36:43.899 --> 01:36:46.357 I thought you wanted a raise. 01:36:50.024 --> 01:36:54.439 - What will you do when the offers come forward? - There aren't going to be others. 01:36:56.357 --> 01:37:02.607 You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. What's being done here, will transform mankind. 01:37:03.274 --> 01:37:06.107 Darling, bring that chair, right here. 01:37:09.149 --> 01:37:10.189 Come on. 01:37:10.357 --> 01:37:14.689 Aren't you the least bit concerned, what they'll do to Mr. Jones? 01:37:15.524 --> 01:37:17.232 They start believing him? 01:37:17.524 --> 01:37:20.607 Fetch that chair, bring it right over here. Put it right down here. 01:37:25.483 --> 01:37:27.065 A bit closer. 01:37:38.983 --> 01:37:41.233 In all my time in Moscow... 01:37:43.108 --> 01:37:48.858 I have never heard a tale as preposterous as that of Mr. Jones. 01:37:51.025 --> 01:37:53.525 Go on, type! 01:38:07.983 --> 01:38:12.775 Certainly, conditions are not ideal, in the Soviet Union, 01:38:13.233 --> 01:38:15.815 There are still great challenges, 01:38:16.858 --> 01:38:21.150 but Stalin continues his march toward modernity. 01:38:23.358 --> 01:38:25.400 March towards modernity. 01:38:31.065 --> 01:38:33.065 You can protect him. 01:38:35.358 --> 01:38:36.815 Right. 01:38:38.233 --> 01:38:41.900 An exaggeration, of the now notorious... 01:38:42.150 --> 01:38:45.940 Gareth Jones, do not portray... 01:38:46.983 --> 01:38:51.233 the real modern Russia where Stalin is admired... 01:38:52.525 --> 01:38:54.858 and loved. 01:38:59.651 --> 01:39:00.816 Signed: 01:39:00.984 --> 01:39:02.526 Ada Brooks. 01:39:22.816 --> 01:39:24.109 Yeah. 01:39:24.400 --> 01:39:26.734 Your passage to the future. 01:39:30.026 --> 01:39:33.066 It's an old friend in New York, it's an editor. 01:39:36.651 --> 01:39:39.651 The only monsters they have, are bankers. 01:40:12.359 --> 01:40:14.401 You have a choice, Ada? 01:40:18.441 --> 01:40:20.234 Think of Paul. 01:40:33.442 --> 01:40:38.110 I received an urgent phone call this morning from Mr. Litvinov, 01:40:38.277 --> 01:40:40.777 Commissar for Foreign Affairs. 01:40:41.235 --> 01:40:46.360 He told me some disturbing things about your unauthorised trip. 01:40:47.277 --> 01:40:48.942 I assured Mr. Litvinov, 01:40:49.402 --> 01:40:54.402 that you will retract your statement to the press, and clear up this matter immediately. 01:40:54.567 --> 01:40:58.860 - Or they will shoot our engineers? - That matter does not concern you. 01:40:59.027 --> 01:41:02.360 They are holding them hostage sir. Blackmailing us from speaking out. 01:41:02.527 --> 01:41:07.402 - You broke serious laws in a foreign country! - You wanted to know the truth as much as I did! 01:41:07.567 --> 01:41:11.402 You were released weeks ago from my employ. You no longer work for me, 01:41:11.567 --> 01:41:15.067 or His Majesty's Government. If you had any sense, you would do as I ask! 01:41:15.235 --> 01:41:20.027 Have you seen so many wars that the murder of innocent people means nothing to you?? 01:41:21.610 --> 01:41:25.235 How can I retract... the empty villages? 01:41:25.610 --> 01:41:28.902 The orphaned children plagued by hunger? 01:41:29.067 --> 01:41:31.110 We can still do something sir.... 01:41:31.360 --> 01:41:32.777 - We can still help. - Mr. Jones. 01:41:32.942 --> 01:41:37.360 - We cannot let Stalin get away with this! - What do you expect me to do, exactly!? 01:41:37.527 --> 01:41:42.610 Break off all ties, when our economy is already on its knees? 01:41:45.235 --> 01:41:47.317 You betrayed my trust, 01:41:48.735 --> 01:41:51.027 you betrayed your country. 01:41:51.735 --> 01:41:57.067 You will retract your statement publicly. Without delay! 01:41:58.111 --> 01:42:00.193 You've gone too far. 01:42:08.858 --> 01:42:14.111 I... I will not be silenced sir. 01:42:19.736 --> 01:42:21.778 They're saying, you lied.. 01:42:22.111 --> 01:42:23.403 They're all saying... 01:42:23.611 --> 01:42:26.736 Diplomatic crisis has erupted between the East and the West. 01:42:26.903 --> 01:42:31.111 The latest accusation comes from a young man by the name of Gareth Jones. 01:42:31.278 --> 01:42:36.028 It should be noted, that Mr. Jones is the foreign advisor to David Lloyd George. 01:42:36.193 --> 01:42:41.111 The claim from Lloyd George's secretary, is that a famine plagues The Soviet Union. 01:42:41.278 --> 01:42:43.236 I spoke to various experts myself, 01:42:43.403 --> 01:42:47.361 and can confirm, the conditions remain difficult during the five year plan... 01:42:47.486 --> 01:42:50.277 - My god. -... but my readers will be reassured: 01:42:50.528 --> 01:42:53.403 that the famine story, is entirely false. 01:42:53.568 --> 01:42:55.236 New York Times. 01:42:56.361 --> 01:42:59.568 Duranty debunks our dear Mr. Jones. 01:42:59.736 --> 01:43:03.278 It's a shame, he hasn't mentioned he's Lloyd George's Secretary. 01:43:38.029 --> 01:43:39.362 Gareth. 01:44:07.737 --> 01:44:10.529 You were cleverer than all of us. 01:44:11.029 --> 01:44:13.362 Last place I thought you'd end up. 01:44:14.444 --> 01:44:16.194 Thought you'd be Prime Minister by now. 01:44:16.362 --> 01:44:19.612 We've already had one Welsh Prime Minister this century. 01:44:19.944 --> 01:44:22.404 Mustn’t be greedy. 01:44:24.028 --> 01:44:26.529 I am happy to have you here, I am... 01:44:26.904 --> 01:44:30.194 Look I promised the publishers to keep you away from foreign affairs and politics... 01:44:30.362 --> 01:44:32.569 But that does leave things like... culture. 01:44:32.737 --> 01:44:35.987 Bryn! Gareth Jones, remember him? He's back! The legend returns! 01:44:36.154 --> 01:44:37.612 - Hold on, culture? - Yes! 01:44:37.779 --> 01:44:41.362 Anything to help people to forget the terrible state we're in. Morning. 01:44:42.029 --> 01:44:44.362 I've got you in with me. Hope that's ok? 01:44:44.694 --> 01:44:48.154 And we shall be as snug as... Good morning! Good morning! Good morning! 01:44:52.612 --> 01:44:56.694 This just in from Moscow: The Soviet Union will release the remaining British Engineers and... 01:44:58.362 --> 01:45:01.780 - No, no. - may be able to return home as early as next week. 01:45:01.945 --> 01:45:05.405 Kremlin officials in Washington today, have much to celebrate: 01:45:05.570 --> 01:45:08.905 After a series of negotiations with the Whitehouse, 01:45:09.070 --> 01:45:13.530 the United States has officially recognized The Soviet Union... 01:45:17.738 --> 01:45:19.695 - Cheers! - Cheers! 01:45:19.945 --> 01:45:25.113 American business leaders have long welcomed this move, as a way to expand trade. 01:45:25.280 --> 01:45:29.946 With the man credited for convincing President Roosevelt, is Walter Duranty, 01:45:30.320 --> 01:45:34.070 better known to his readers as "Our Man In Moscow". 01:45:35.279 --> 01:45:38.363 The creatures outside looked from pig to man, 01:45:38.530 --> 01:45:40.445 and from man to pig, 01:45:40.613 --> 01:45:42.613 and from pig to man again; 01:45:43.820 --> 01:45:47.905 but already, it was impossible to say, which was which. 01:46:09.780 --> 01:46:11.238 That's Gareth Jones. 01:46:11.405 --> 01:46:13.070 The man whose mad. 01:46:22.945 --> 01:46:24.655 Run! Run! 01:47:01.406 --> 01:47:02.739 Gareth! 01:47:03.821 --> 01:47:05.406 Are you alright? 01:47:06.489 --> 01:47:09.946 Those church ladies refusing to talk to you are they? 01:47:13.031 --> 01:47:14.446 No rush. 01:47:17.656 --> 01:47:20.906 You planning on submitting your article soon? 01:47:23.071 --> 01:47:24.071 He's here! 01:47:24.821 --> 01:47:26.196 Blimey! 01:47:26.446 --> 01:47:27.781 Who's here? 01:47:28.031 --> 01:47:29.406 Hearst. 01:47:30.821 --> 01:47:32.446 William Randolph Hearst. 01:47:32.656 --> 01:47:35.321 He summers near ... St. Donats. 01:47:37.239 --> 01:47:39.696 You've been away a long time. 01:47:41.321 --> 01:47:42.364 Of course. 01:47:43.239 --> 01:47:46.531 Of course! Hearst bought St. Donats. 01:47:46.696 --> 01:47:47.821 Where do you think you're going? 01:47:47.989 --> 01:47:50.156 - I've got to talk to him. - Not a word! 01:47:50.321 --> 01:47:51.614 Gareth! 01:47:52.571 --> 01:47:53.656 Gareth wait! 01:47:53.906 --> 01:47:55.239 Gareth! 01:47:55.906 --> 01:47:57.571 Gareth, wait! 01:47:58.531 --> 01:48:00.364 Every summer we try to get an interview with Hearst... 01:48:00.531 --> 01:48:03.197 and every summer we get denied. Not this summer. 01:48:03.365 --> 01:48:07.282 I'm the assistant editor now! I have to play my cards carefully, do you understand? 01:48:09.157 --> 01:48:10.157 Fine. 01:48:10.532 --> 01:48:13.240 - I'll interview him. - Are you mad? 01:48:15.115 --> 01:48:17.490 I can't have you going to St. Donats. 01:48:17.907 --> 01:48:20.490 You've gabled with your career. You're not gambling with mine. 01:48:50.865 --> 01:48:52.072 Can I help you? 01:48:52.240 --> 01:48:53.907 I work for the Western Mail. 01:48:54.032 --> 01:48:56.072 Well, as you can see, we're rather busy. 01:48:56.490 --> 01:48:57.907 I just returned from Moscow... 01:48:58.072 --> 01:49:01.197 I have a story that will run on the front of Mr. Hearst's newspapers. 01:49:01.447 --> 01:49:04.447 I suggest you talk to his newspapers then. 01:49:04.990 --> 01:49:07.822 Didn't you say, you write for the Western Mail? 01:49:08.072 --> 01:49:11.782 Why would you give your story to Mr. Hearst, a competitor? 01:49:12.115 --> 01:49:15.032 Mr. Hearst's papers have more lawyers. 01:49:15.822 --> 01:49:17.657 I'm afraid you're trespassing. 01:49:17.907 --> 01:49:19.615 I must ask you to leave. 01:49:19.822 --> 01:49:22.490 If you'll just give me one minute, I... 01:49:24.072 --> 01:49:25.282 Thank you! Thank you! 01:49:25.447 --> 01:49:27.197 I have my bike. 01:50:00.241 --> 01:50:03.783 - I, I let myself in through the... kitchen.. - Eres! 01:50:03.948 --> 01:50:07.073 Mr. Hearst, believe me, I have something you want to hear. 01:50:10.198 --> 01:50:11.323 Peter! 01:50:11.698 --> 01:50:15.866 I have a story of Pulitzer making a terrible mistake Mr. Hearst. 01:50:15.948 --> 01:50:17.198 Let him be! 01:50:18.157 --> 01:50:19.448 You have thirty seconds. 01:50:19.991 --> 01:50:22.241 I just returned from Moscow. 01:50:22.698 --> 01:50:26.282 I took a train south and saw empty village after empty village. 01:50:26.407 --> 01:50:30.323 - I have a famine story. - I saw it with my own eyes, Mr. Hearst. 01:50:30.866 --> 01:50:37.323 The world has just lost one of its best reporters, a man who I know you tried to hire. 01:50:39.533 --> 01:50:41.741 Chased Klebb for years... 01:50:43.616 --> 01:50:46.866 - Do you think, they killed him? - You thought so too. 01:50:48.448 --> 01:50:49.573 Why did they want Paul dead? 01:50:49.866 --> 01:50:55.366 - The same reason they're discrediting me. - You're certain it was the famine story got him killed? 01:50:55.783 --> 01:50:59.283 A journalist who worked with him confirmed it. 01:51:04.492 --> 01:51:07.534 Well, if I commission an article from you... 01:51:09.117 --> 01:51:14.699 it will be your word against Duranty's Pulitzer. 01:51:23.367 --> 01:51:24.574 Yes. 01:51:28.659 --> 01:51:30.992 Famine in The Soviet Union! 01:51:31.016 --> 01:51:51.016 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::. 01:52:06.284 --> 01:52:09.492 Dear Gareth, I am home, in Berlin... 01:52:11.367 --> 01:52:13.867 How quickly things fall apart. 01:52:18.242 --> 01:52:24.199 I'm writing for Berliner Tageblatt again, at the moment. Until they shut us down. 01:52:24.742 --> 01:52:26.909 I read your article. 01:52:28.074 --> 01:52:29.949 You were right: 01:52:30.242 --> 01:52:32.574 There is only one truth. 01:52:35.325 --> 01:52:37.535 Congratulations, Gareth. 01:52:38.243 --> 01:52:40.493 Paul would be so proud. 01:52:43.200 --> 01:52:45.325 Wherever you're off to next, 01:52:45.743 --> 01:52:48.200 make sure to pack a good bag. 01:53:03.368 --> 01:53:04.410 For days at a time, 01:53:04.910 --> 01:53:08.325 the animals had nothing to eat but chaff and mangles. 01:53:08.493 --> 01:53:11.700 Starvation seems to stare them in the face. 01:53:11.993 --> 01:53:16.450 It was likely necessary to conceal this fact from the outside world. 01:53:17.368 --> 01:53:20.160 Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, 01:53:20.325 --> 01:53:25.700 the human beings were inventing fresh lies, about animal farm. 01:53:25.724 --> 01:53:45.724 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.