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Suffragette
- Director: Sarah Gavron
- DOP: Eduard Grau
- Studio Ruby Films for Pathe
- Year: 2015
- Genre: Drama
- Runtime: 106 minutes
- Distribution: Pathe & Focus Features
Goldcrest’s Involvement
Suffragette is the first feature film to tell the story of women's fight for the vote. The film centres around a group of the working-class British women who, inspired by the suffragette leader, Emmeline Pankhurst, took their fight for enfranchisement to the male establishment in Westminster. Mulligan plays Maud, a housewife who defies her husband (Ben Whishaw) and risks losing custody of her children in the struggle for universal suffrage. Meryl Streep plays Pankhurst, the co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union, who undertook hunger strikes and advocated property destruction as a means of protest.
Team
Cast and Crew
Producers
- Alison Owen
- Faye Ward
Writers
- Abi Morgan
Cast
- Carey Mulligan
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Meryl Streep
- Ben Whishaw
- Brendan Gleeson.
