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
8 November 1985 (1985-11-08) (UK)
[1]
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.
^ abBorne, 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.
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