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The women's suffrage movement was sweeping across Europe when this little comedy film was made just before the outbreak of WWI. It shows scenes from an election campaign held between two women – and it is very clear exactly what agenda is on the film-maker's minds. The prospect of two women running for a civic position is shown as a bad thing, something that will bring women to blows in the street and emasculate their husbands if such feminist nonsense is allowed to continue unabated as they are forced to wash dishes and tend to baby. Luckily for us all, the victorious candidate soon comes to realise the scale of the mistake she has made. We see her in the film's final scene cuddling her baby and pet with huge relief as hubby holds forth on a woman's rightful place. Not exactly a politically correct film then, but mildly amusing nevertheless. Not surprisingly, it would be 1944 before women were given the vote in France