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.
Acting
Carey Mulligan's silent breakdown is devastating.
Direction
Handheld cameras make history feel dangerously immediate.
Production
Shot in Houses of Parliament—first film ever granted access.
Director
Sarah Gavron
Carey Mulligan
Maud Watts
Helena Bonham Carter
Edith Ellyn
Brendan Gleeson
Arthur Steed
Anne-Marie Duff
Violet Miller
Meryl Streep
Emmeline Pankhurst
Ben Whishaw
Sonny Watts
Romola Garai
Alice Haughton
Samuel West
Benedict Haughton
Geoff Bell
Norman Taylor
Natalie Press
Emily Davison
Adrian Schiller
David Lloyd George
Amanda Lawrence
Miss Withers
Lorraine Stanley
Mrs Coleman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sarah Gavron hired an almost entirely female crew, including the first female cinematographer of a major period drama.
The UK government pardoned suffragettes in 2018—the same year women could finally see their own history represented on British currency.
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