Country: UK
Year: 2015
Duration: 106'
London, the early 1900s. Since the age of seven, Maud has worked as a laundress in an unsafe workplace dominated by its arrogant proprietor; she is married to a man who mistreats her. She finds herself by chance in the middle of a protest organized by the Suffragettes and, after overcoming her initial reluctance, she joins the movement in hopes of obtaining that freedom which has always been denied her and many others. But the struggle is difficult and painful.
Biography
film director
Sarah Gavron
Sarah Gavron (1970) studied English literature at the University of York and then film at the Edinburgh College of Art. After working for three years at the BBC, she studied cinematography at London’s National Film and Television School. She directed a number of shorts before debuting in feature films in 2007 with Brick Lane (also presented at the Torino Film Festival), for which she received nominations for the BAFTAs, the BIFAs and the Alfred Dunhill Talent Award at the London Film Festival. Her TV drama This Little Life (2003) had previously won the Dennis Potter Award, the TV BAFTA for Best Director, the Best Newcomer Award and the Royal Television Society and Women in Film and TV Award. She is presently working on a new project, Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, produced by the Film4 production company.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Girl in the Lay-By (cm, 2000), Losing Touch (cm, 2000), This Little Life (tv, 2003), Brick Lane (2007), The Village at the End of the World (doc., 2013), Suffragette (2015).
Declaration
film director
“The term ‘suffragette’ was coined as a term of derision by the British press for activists in the movement for women’s suffrage. The term was then appropriated by the movement itself. The Suffragettes disrupted communications by cutting telegraph wires, blowing up post boxes and otherwise attacked property, they went to prison and on hunger strikes to draw attention to their fight for equality against an increasingly brutal state. I was amazed that this extraordinary and powerful story had never been told. We were a team of women filmmakers and were immediately drawn to the material.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Sarah Gavron
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Abi Morgan
fotografia/cinematography
Edu Grau
montaggio/film editing
Barney Pilling
scenografia/production design
Alice Normington
costumi/costume design
Jane Petrie
musica/music
Alexandre Desplat
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Carey Mulligan (Maud), Helena Bonham Carter (Edith Ellyn), Meryl Streep (Emmeline Pankhurst), Brenda Gleeson (Arthur Steed), Anne-Marie Duff (Violet Miller), Ben Whishaw (Sonny Watts), Romola Garai (Alice Haughton), Finbar Lynch (Hugh Ellyn), Natalie Press (Emily Wilding Davidson), Samuel West (Benedict Haughton), Geoff Bell (Norman Taylor)
produttori/producers
Faye Ward, Allison Owen
produzione/production
Ruby Films
coproduttori/coproducers
Andy Stebbing, Hannah Farrell
Sarah Gavron
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Abi Morgan
fotografia/cinematography
Edu Grau
montaggio/film editing
Barney Pilling
scenografia/production design
Alice Normington
costumi/costume design
Jane Petrie
musica/music
Alexandre Desplat
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Carey Mulligan (Maud), Helena Bonham Carter (Edith Ellyn), Meryl Streep (Emmeline Pankhurst), Brenda Gleeson (Arthur Steed), Anne-Marie Duff (Violet Miller), Ben Whishaw (Sonny Watts), Romola Garai (Alice Haughton), Finbar Lynch (Hugh Ellyn), Natalie Press (Emily Wilding Davidson), Samuel West (Benedict Haughton), Geoff Bell (Norman Taylor)
produttori/producers
Faye Ward, Allison Owen
produzione/production
Ruby Films
coproduttori/coproducers
Andy Stebbing, Hannah Farrell
distribuzione/distribution
Cinema srl.
contatti/contacts
Cinema srl
Valerio De Paolis
cinema@cinemasrl.com
www.cinemasrl.com
Cinema srl.
contatti/contacts
Cinema srl
Valerio De Paolis
cinema@cinemasrl.com
www.cinemasrl.com
