ORF-Premiere: „Suffragette – deeds instead of words“ on international women’s day in ORF eins

Historical drama for ORF-focus on „100 years of women’s right to vote“ with Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep

Vienna (OTS) – As women had no voice, have courageous women in England in the early 20th century. Century began to fight for their freedom. In „Suffragette – deeds instead of words“ the Director Sarah Gavron on Friday, may 8. March 2019, at 20.15 clock in ORF eins and based on a screenplay by Abi Morgan the way of this struggle, against all odds, and tells a moving story about women who changed the world. From peaceful Protest to hunger strikes and Molotov: Carey Mulligan („The great Gatsby“, „Drive“) is in the London of 1912, as a young worker, part of the struggle of British women the right to vote – against the police and their own husbands.
In other roles, this star-studded historical drama also Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff and Meryl Streep, among other things, the rocky road to women’s suffrage. The term „Suffragette“, originally pejorative colored name in the British press for all the Activists who fought for women’s suffrage – English „suffrage“ – that has taken over the movement. The melodrama, which was filmed at the original locations in the „Houses of Parliament“, in the context of the ORF TV-centre of gravity „of 100 years of women’s right to vote“ on the program.

In addition, on world women’s day in the ORF 2: „Raise Your Voice!“ is the „dialogue forum“-the Motto (10.00 a.m.), Barbara Karlich with your guests about the theme „power of women: I don’t need a man, in order to achieve my goals“ (16.00 PM) and Neo-„Dancing Star“ Virginia Ernst and Elke Winkens are a guest at „VERA. This happens in the best of families“ (21.20). „Universe History“ documented the „Rebellion of the women of The long struggle for the right to vote“ (22.35 hours).

This happens in the best of families“ (21.20 Uhr, ORF 2) and documented

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The way for the introduction of women’s suffrage in Britain at the beginning of the 20th century. Century was rocky and bloody. In the maelstrom of events, a young woman who has worked since their Childhood in appalling conditions in a industrial Laundry device.

Poverty, violence, humiliation – it’s a vicious circle, and the young worker Maud (Carey Mulligan) does not call into question, to makes them more likely to happen to the acquaintance of the suffragettes. As you will be given the opportunity to report in front of Prime Minister Lloyd George and the British Parliament, from the misery of their work in a Laundry, this will lead to their political revival. Maud is gradually changing from the good wife and the mother of a boy to the militant Suffragette, which will be held in the pharmacist Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter), a close ally. The police searched, the charismatic leader of the suffragettes, Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), motivates the movement from the underground.

Because of their commitment, the 24 is outlawed-year-old Maud of colleagues and superiors in the Laundry and soon in your neighborhood how a leper is treated. When she is arrested as an activist in the suffragette movement, several times by police inspector Steed (Brendan Gleeson) and put in jail, from the point of view of her husband Sonny (Ben Whishaw), a shame that he can not live: He throws Maude out of the common apartment and gives her son up for Adoption. Desperate, but determined to Maude remains only to escape to the front. The struggle of women is becoming increasingly militant.

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