Suffragette (Suffragette)
Directed by: Sarah GavronCast list: Carey Mulligan, Anne-Marie Duff, Helena Bonham Carter
Country: United Kingdom, France
Year: 2015
Genres: Drama / Historical / Biographical /
Runtime: 106 min.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Original version in English subtitled in Spanish
A 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 as gripping and visceral as any thriller, it is also heart-breaking and inspirational.
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Subjects: English language / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: education in human values / women (and/or violence against women) / culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / biographies, autobiographies / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships / human rights / judicial system, prisons, death penalty / politics, political systems /
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