| Letter to Brezhnev | |
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 Promotional movie poster for the film | |
| 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 |
Release date |
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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.
- ^ "The Week Ahead". The Times. 2 November 1985. p. 38.
- ^ a b Borne, Nigel. "Little film little profit." Sunday Times [London, England] 26 Jan. 1986: 31. The Sunday Times Digital Archive. Web. 29 Mar. 2014.
- ^ "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 25.