Powerful First Trailer For SUFFRAGETTE Stars Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan

Starring Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan, here’s your first look at SUFFRAGETTE.

Heading to cinemas during the upcoming awards season, SUFFRAGETTE is the first ever feature film to tell the inspirational story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who risked everything in the fight for equality.

SUFFRAGETTE is a moving drama that will empower all who are striving for equal rights in our own day and age. The stirring story, inspired by the early-20th-century campaign by the suffragettes for the right of women to vote, centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother who comes to realize that she must fight for her dignity both at home and in her workplace. Realizing that she is not alone, she becomes an activist alongside other brave women from all walks of life. The early efforts at resistance were passive but as the women faced increasingly aggressive police action, the suffragettes become galvanized – risking their very lives to ensure that women’s rights would be recognized and respected.

Ruby Films’ Alison Owen, an Academy Award nominee as producer of Elizabeth, and Faye Ward are the producers of SUFFRAGETTE, which is directed by Sarah Gavron (Brick Lane) from a screenplay by Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady).

Starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Whishaw and Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst, SUFFRAGETTE will open in UK cinemas nationwide on October 30, 2015; Focus Features will release the film in the U.S. Fall 2015.

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Back Row, Left to Right:
Sarah Gavron (Director), Helen Pankhurst (Great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst), Laura Pankhurst (Great-great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst), Alison Owen (Producer).
Front Row, Left to Right:
Abi Morgan (Screenwriter), Anne-Marie Duff (Actor), Meryl Streep (Actor), Carey Mulligan (Actor), Helena Bonham Carter (Actor), Faye Ward (Producer).