
In the film “Words of War,” set to premiere on May 2, the well-known British actress, who has starred in “The Theory of Everything,” “Black Mirror” and “Peterloo,” will portray Anna Politkovskaya. In the early 2000s, Politkovskaya gained both national and international acclaim for her investigative journalism in Chechnya and her courageous reporting on the Russian military invasion and the brutal acts committed by its soldiers. However, this also made her a nuisance to Vladimir Putin’s regime. Despite enduring years of harassment, threats, and even poisoning attempts, she was tragically murdered outside her Moscow apartment in 2005.