Suffragettes - actions instead of words

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Movie
German title Suffragettes - actions instead of words
Original title Suffragette
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2015
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 10
Rod
Director Sarah Gavron
script Abi Morgan
production Alison Owen
Faye Ward
music Alexandre Desplat
camera Edu Gray
cut Barney Pilling
occupation

Suffragette - actions not words (Original title: Suffragette ) is a British drama by the director Sarah Gavron from 2015 . The film addresses the beginnings of the women's movement in Great Britain. It opened in German cinemas on February 4, 2016. The film has been available in Germany on DVD, Blu-ray and VoD since June 16, 2016.

action

Maud Watts, a 24-year-old married laundress and mother of one son, came into contact with the suffragette movement through a colleague in 1912 . Alice Haughton encourages Maud to testify before a parliamentary committee of inquiry chaired by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, is discussing the possibility of introducing women's suffrage . When the announcement of the committee's decision was disappointing for the women, their demonstration was violently broken up and Maud was arrested. Back in freedom, she promises her husband Sonny to stay away from the suffragettes in the future.

She still goes to an event where the intellectual leader of the Movement Emmeline Pankhurst gives a speech. There Maud is arrested again and delivered by the police to Sonny, who then throws her out of the family home. The police published the pictures of the suffragettes in the newspapers, and Maud was dismissed without notice by her employer. She rejects attempts by Inspector Steed to recruit her as an agent. She secretly tries several times to see her son, but is prevented from doing so by Sonny. When Sonny cannot get along with the boy alone, he gives him up for adoption against Maud's resistance.

Attempts by the suffragettes to force the newspapers no longer to ignore them lead to bomb attacks on mailboxes and on Lloyd George's new, vacant house. Maud and other suffragettes are arrested and sent to prison. To draw attention to their situation, they are protesting with hunger strikes . The authorities initially responded with force-feeding and later, when serious health problems set in some women, passed a new law, according to which prisoners on hunger strikes can first be released and arrested again after they have recovered.

When they fail to get their concerns across to the general public, the women decide to unroll a banner in front of the cameras at one of the social highlights of the year, the Epsom Derby, in the presence of King George V. Only Maud and Emily Davison reach the derby. They are denied access to the king's area. On the spur of the moment, Emily runs onto the racetrack with the banner - and is fatally injured by the king's horse. Only now does the suffragette movement get press attention, Emily becomes the movement's martyr . The film ends with historical black-and-white images of Emily Davison's funeral, followed by overlays about the chronology of the introduction of women's suffrage in Great Britain and other countries.

background

The film shows the story of courageous women who fought for many things that are taken for granted today, such as the right to vote or smoking in public places. The focus is on dignity and self-determination as well as fair pay and better working conditions . The introduction of the right to vote for women in Germany in 1918 is a milestone in the history of feminism .

reception

The film was able to convince 73% of the critics on Rotten Tomatoes . He achieved a score of 67 on Metacritic . The film service wrote: “The political commitment of the suffragettes forms the core of the convincingly played feature film, which cleverly focuses on the effects of social disadvantage such as militant activism on the individuality and private life of the oppressed women . "

Awards (selection)

A costume from the film on display at the 24th Annual Art of Motion Picture Costume Design in Los Angeles

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Suffragettes - Actions instead of words . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for suffragettes - actions instead of words . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ http://www.webgrrls-berlin.de/2016/01/suffragette-ab-4-februar-im-kino/ Suffragette in the cinema
  4. ↑ http://www.tip-berlin.de/node/731260/locations schedule in Berlin
  5. ↑ http://www.suffragette-film.de/home/ Homepage for the film
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnzcfOlJN2c Trailer on Youtube
  7. ↑ Suffragette - Actions Instead of Words. In: Suffragette - Actions Instead of Words. Retrieved June 1, 2016 .
  8. ↑ http://www.suffragette-film.de/story/ Struggle for voting rights and participation
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Introduction of women's suffrage in Germany in 1918 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmfsfj.de
  10. ↑ Suffragette - Actions instead of words at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  11. ↑ Suffragette - Actions instead of words at Metacritic (English)
  12. ↑ Film review on filmdienst.de