Maxine Peake To Play Fearless Russian Journalist & Putin Scourge Anna Politkovskaya In Timely Cannes Package ‘Mother Russia’; Ciaran Hinds Co-Stars With Jason Isaacs
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Two-time BAFTA nominee Maxine Peake (The Village) is set to star as renowned Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya in the timely Cannes market package Mother Russia.The film will tell the story of world-renowned journalist and human rights activist Politkovskaya, who 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.Oscar nominee Ciaran Hinds (Belfast) will play Nobel Prize-winning newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov and BAFTA nominee Jason Isaacs (The Death Of Stalin) will play Politkovskaya’s husband Sacha.Luminosity Entertainment is launching worldwide sales on the project at the Cannes market.Pic is being produced by Good Films Collective’s (The Infiltrator) Miriam Segal and Paul Brennan in collaboration with K.
Jam Media and its principal Kia Jam (Lucky Number Slevin), and Richard Alan Reid of BuzzFeed Studios.Broadchurch and Vigil director James Strong will direct from a screenplay by Eric Poppen.
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