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Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)

Drama Comedy History

She left the land of Marks & Spencer and went to the world of Marx and Lenin.

Release Date: 2007, September 28
Directors: Bille Eltringham
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire, Assassin Films, Pioneer Pictures, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Cast: Imola Gáspár, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey, Iain Glen, Alexander Scheer, Brittany Ashworth, Heike Makatsch, Jessica Barden, Katharina Thalbach, Robert Lowe, John Kirk, Christian Brassington, Catherine Tate

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

woman director communism dysfunctional marriage eastern germany