Country / Region |
UK |
Year | | | 2015 |
Format | | | DCP |
Color | | | Color |
Length | | | 106 min |
Rating | | | PG |
Suffragette
Suffragette is a thrilling 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. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalized 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.
Sarah Gavron
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Sarah Gavron is a British film director and graduate of the National Film and Television School in London. She directed highly acclaimed drama Brick Lane and also has worked in documentary filmmaking working on Village at the End of the World. Her latest film Suffragette is the opening of the BFI London Film Festival 2015. |