Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (AUS)

Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (AUS) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2007 and produced in:
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Bille Eltringham

Written By:
Bridget O'Connor
Peter Straughan

Actors:
Catherine Tate ..... Dorothy Ratcliffe
Iain Glen ..... Frank Ratcliffe
Brittany Ashworth ..... Alex Ratcliffe
Heike Makatsch ..... Frau Unger
Jessica Barden ..... Mary Ratcliffe
Christian Brassington ..... Thomas
Nigel Betts ..... Uncle Philip
Ottilia Borbáth ..... Frau Glock
Béla Fesztbaum ..... 1st Stasi Officer
Fanni Futár ..... Uti
Imola Gáspár ..... Art Teacher
Ákos Horváth ..... 2nd Border Guard
Barna Illyés ..... Gym Teacher
John Kirk ..... Mr. Murray
Karl Kranzkowski ..... Rector
Uwe Lauer ..... Truck Driver
Robert Lowe ..... Otto
Piroska Móga ..... Ursula
Ben O'Brien ..... 2nd Stasi Officer
Gábor Pintér ..... 1st Border Guard
Alexander Scheer ..... Willi
Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey ..... Jerzy
Katharina Thalbach ..... Anna
Susan Tordoff ..... Mary's Tacher
Stephan Wolf-Schönburg ..... Herr Vort

Synopsis:

Black comedy, based on a true story and set in 1968. Idealistic Communist Frank decides to move from Bingley, Yorkshire with his family to the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). Wife Dorothy suppresses her doubts, whilst Frank soon finds that the ideal Socialist society he envisaged does not exist. Instead the family are affected by bureaucracy, paranoia and surveillance. Dorothy befriends a young boy called Otto, and finds herself caught up in helping him escape to the West.

Based on the true story of Frank Ratcliffe, a Marxist from the north of England who drags his family with him to live in East Berlin in the mid-1960s, only to realize later that life in the communist bloc is not the idyll he had imagined. His wife of 17 years, Dorothy Ratcliffe, is thrown by life behind the Iron Curtain but battles to keep the family together.

This is not a Love Song director Billie Eltringham returns the the helm to tell this comedic tale of a 1960's-era clan of British communists who choose to leave their beloved Britain to seek out Utopian bliss in East Germany.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 08 October, 2010.