Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)
She left the land of Marks & Spencer and went to the world of Marx and Lenin.
Based on a true story, Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nightmare of rationing, censorship and the most spied upon people in history rather than the Marxist utopia they were expecting. But if they thought getting in was difficult wait until they try to get out.
- Date of release
- 2007-09-28
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, History
- Director
- Bille Eltringham
Casting
- Catherine Tate — Dorothy Ratcliffe
- Iain Glen — Frank Ratcliffe
- Katharina Thalbach — Anna
- Heike Makatsch — Frau Unger
- Alexander Scheer — Willi
- Jessica Barden — Mary Ratcliffe
- Brittany Ashworth — Alex Ratcliffe
- Nigel Betts — Uncle Philip
- Christian Brassington — Thomas
- Robert Lowe — Otto
- Ottilia Borbáth — Frau Glock
- Imola Gáspár — Art Teacher
Interesting facts
Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution is a 2007 British comedy drama film, directed by Bille Eltringham and starring Catherine Tate, Iain Glen and Brittany Ashworth, about a British family who move to East Germany in 1968, during the Cold War. It was filmed in Hungary and the United Kingdom, and was released on 9 July 2007 at the Cambridge Film Festival, and nationwide in the UK on 28 September.
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