Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2007-09-28
Runtime: 102 mins
Director: Bille Eltringham
Writer: Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
Spoken language: English, Deutsch
Genres: Comedy, Drama, History
Original title: Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire, Assassin Films, Pioneer Pictures, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Production Countries: United Kingdom
Cast
Catherine Tate
Iain Glen
Katharina Thalbach
Heike Makatsch
Alexander Scheer
Jessica Barden
Brittany Ashworth
Nigel Betts
Christian Brassington
Robert Lowe
Ottilia Borbáth
Imola Gáspár
Susan Tordoff
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey
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