Letter to Brezhnev (1985)

Directed by

Chris Bernard

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

R

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two young women in 1980s Liverpool look for escape from their dead-end lives. One of them starts a correspondence with a Soviet sailor leading to an unexpected romance.

warmbittersweetgrittyhopefulcandidgentleunpretentious

What happens

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 stars Alexandra Pigg, Margi Clarke, Alfred Molina, Peter Firth and Tracy Marshak-Nash (credited as Tracy Lea). Letter to Brezhnev presents Margaret Thatcher-era, high-unemployment Liverpool as a depressed and tough city fallen on hard times. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

More like this

• Letting Go (1985)
• The Girl in the Picture (1985)
• Déjà Vu (1985)
• A Room with a View (1986)
• The Most Charming and Attractive (1985)
• To Marry a Captain (1985)
• See You At Wembley, Frankie Walsh (1986)
• Finnegan Begin Again (1985)