Keira Knightley plays the role of a veteran in a film about the war in Iraq

LONDON (Reuters) – British actress Keira Knightley plays in her latest film "Official Secrets" by firing a British government employee after leaked an American secret memo before the start of the Iraq war in 2003.

The actress, aged 34, plays Catherine Gunn, a former interpreter of a British international spy agency, accused of violating the law on official secrets by broadcasting an American memo asking Washington to help the London espionage of the United Nations.

"Many people will disagree with the idea that Catherine did well, and many will see what Catherine did well," Knightley said in an interview with Reuters. What will doubtless be his courage. The idea that someone has a moral reaction to a problem that puts everything in play … doing what he thinks is right for saving lives. "

Knightley thinks these are the questions that he poses that will make people watch the movie. "The responsibility of the government, the legitimacy of the conflict, and these conflicts can they be illegal, and who will be held responsible?"

The film begins in the United States on August 30 and in Britain on October 18.