Words of War (2025)
Rating: 6.7/10
Duration: 117 min
Director(s): James Strong,
Description:
World-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya went from being a local print journalist to braving the Chechen killing fields and exposing Russian state corruption under Vladimir Putin. She refused to give up reporting on the war in Chechnya despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence, including being poisoned. She was ultimately murdered in the elevator of her block of flats and it remains unclear who paid for the contract killing.
Cast
- Ben Miles as Yuri Schekochikhin
- Maxine Peake as Anna Politkovskaya
- Ian Hart as Lt. Col. Egorov
- Ellie Bamber as Elena
- Jason Isaacs as Sacha
- Ciarán Hinds as Dmitry Muratov
- Alec Newman as Major Popov
- Harry Lawtey as Ilya
- Oliver Maltman as Nestor
- Lujza Richter as Fatima
- Lorne MacFadyen as Leo
- Agni Scott as Natalya Estemirova
- Naomi Battrick as Vera Politkovskaya
- Fady Elsayed as Anzor
- Sophie Simnett as Nina