Suffragette

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Suffragette is a historical drama directed by Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane). The film mixes factual details with fictional characters and is the first film allowed to be shot in the British Houses of Parliament. It stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, and Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst, the leader of the British suffragette movement.

SUFFRAGETTE is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. Fighting for the right to vote, these women were not only from the genteel educated classes, there were working women among them who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality – their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. MAUD was one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is both heart-breaking and inspirational.

“We were interested in telling the story of an ordinary working woman in 1912,” says Gavron. “We did extensive research – poring over unpublished diaries and memoirs, police records and academic texts. We then created this composite, fictional character of Maud, who participates in real events as her path crosses with some of the key historic characters, such as Emmeline Pankhurst, Emily Wilding Davison and David Lloyd George.”

Suffragette is rated PG.