Words of War (15)

Starring Maxine Peake, Ciaran Hinds & Jason Isaacs

Wed 27 Aug 7.30pm      Book Now

Thu 28 Aug 7.30pm      Book Now

Duration: 117 mins
AGE Rating: Cert 15
Adults £10

★★★ “A muscular cast, a gifted TV director… [the lead] is played by Maxine Peake with typically fearsome integrity”: The Times

“A savage drama… superbly acted… a striking and sweatily atmospheric picture”: The Observer

In a world silenced by fear, her truth was unstoppable.

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.