Words of War (2025)

Directors

James Strong

Cast

Maxine Peake, Ciarán Hinds, Jason Isaacs, Naomi Battrick

The story

Anna Politkovskaya was a journalist and human rights activist who persisted with reporting on the conflict in Chechnya despite considerable danger to herself and tried to expose corruption within Russia under the governance of Vladimir Putin. She continued in the face of poisoning, intimidation and violence before being the victim of a contract killing in the elevator of her house on October 7, 2006.

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