Focus Features has debuted the domestic trailer for the drama Suffragette [SUFRG] based on the British women's fight to vote during the late 19th and early 20th century. Carey Mulligan [CMULL] plays a young working woman who gets caught up in the protests of the feminist movement. Meryl Streep [MSTRE] plays Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the Women's Social and Political Union. The trailer features a cover of Stevie Nicks' "Landslide" by Robyn Sherwell. Suffragette opens on October 23rd.
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.