Over the years, Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland has made films that delve into human tragedies during historic times. Three of them (1985’s Angry Harvest, 1990’s Europa, Europa and 2011’s In Darkness) were set against backdrop of the Holocaust. The Oscar-nominated septuagenarian felt she had “dutifully said what needed to be said” through her acclaimed work and wasn’t planning to explore another historic tragedy on film until she came across Mr. Jones, a screenplay set during the Holodomor, the 1932-33 manmade famine that cost millions of Ukrainian peasants their lives under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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