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Suffragette | Sarah Gavron & Abi Morgan | Talks at Google

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Channel: Talks at Google · 2015 · Education

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Recorded in London, October 2015

Director Sarah Gavron and Screenwriter Abi Morgan discuss SUFFRAGETTE (2015) with Helen Lewis, Deputy Editor The New Statesman, at Google's office in central London on Friday, 9 October 2015.

Suffragette is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote, 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. Radicalised 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.

The film stars Carey Mulligan (The Great Gatsby, Never Let Me Go), Helena Bonham Carter (The King’s Speech), Brendan Gleeson (Calvary), Anne-Marie Duff (Shameless), Ben Whishaw (Skyfall) and Meryl Streep (Sophie’s Choice). It is directed by Sarah Gavron, reteaming with her Brick Lane screenwriter Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady). Suffragette is produced by Faye Ward and Alison Owen (Saving Mr. Banks).

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