06 Dec 2005
Memoirs of a Geisha
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Seeds of Hunger - Ukraine 1933
Between 1931 and 1933, 4 million Ukrainians were to die of hunger. This famine was not preceded by any cataclysmic weather event, nor by a war. This was an ideological crime: decided by Stalin and approved by the Politburo, with the aim of punishing Ukrainian peasants who refused the collectivization of the countryside, cultivated a strong form of nationalism and showed resistance to communist ideology. Drawing on previously unpublished material, on many Soviet films and on a number of particular points of view, including that of Welsh journalist and whistleblower Gareth Jones, this film retraces the story of that famine.
Top Billed Cast
Kester Lovelace Gareth Jones (voice)
Elisabeth Wautlet Soviet Authorities (voice)
Less "Leslie" Clack Edouard Herriot (voice) (as Les Clack)
Jerry Di Giacomo Italian Consul (voice)
Ken Starcevic Walter Duranty (voice)
Bruce Sherfield Accounts (voice)
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