Movie
Suffragette
Overview
Based on true events about 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.
Details
- Release date
- 2015-10-16
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Pathé, Film4 Productions, BFI, Ingenious Media, Ruby Films
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Carey Mulligan as Maud Watts
- Helena Bonham Carter as Edith Ellyn
- Brendan Gleeson as Arthur Steed
- Anne-Marie Duff as Violet Miller
- Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst
- Ben Whishaw as Sonny Watts
- Romola Garai as Alice Haughton
- Samuel West as Benedict Haughton
- Geoff Bell as Norman Taylor
- Natalie Press as Emily Davison
- Adrian Schiller as David Lloyd George
- Amanda Lawrence as Miss Withers
Crew
- Sarah Gavron - Director
- Abi Morgan - Writer
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