妇女参政论者

影片讲述一个多世纪前，英国妇女为了争取选举权而不懈斗争的故事。斯特里普在片中饰演的埃米琳·潘克赫斯特是一位著名的妇女选举权倡导者。她与几位同盟者发起成立了“妇女议会”，在国会开会时，她们也开会，与议会唱对台戏。由于采取了激进的斗争措施，潘克赫斯特同她的同盟者们曾多次入狱，在社会上造成了很大的反响。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.