Letter to Brezhnev | |
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Directed by | Chris Bernard |
Written by | Frank Clarke |
Produced by | Stephen Woolley Janet Goddard Catherine Spack |
Starring | Alexandra Pigg Margi Clarke Alfred Molina Peter Firth Tracy Lea |
Cinematography | Bruce McGowan |
Edited by | Lesley Walker |
Music by | Alan Gill |
Distributed by | Channel Four Films |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £50,000[2] or £379,000[3] |
Box office | £450,000 (UK)[2] |
Letter to Brezhnev is a 1985 British romantic comedy film about working-class life in Liverpool, written by Frank Clarke and directed by Chris Bernard. It starred Alexandra Pigg, Margi Clarke, Alfred Molina, Peter Firth and Tracy Marshak-Nash (credited as Tracy Lea). Letter to Brezhnev presents Margaret Thatcher's high-unemployment Liverpool as a depressed and tough city fallen on hard times.