Where to watch · United States
Stream
via JustWatch · IP Geolocation by DB-IP
Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)
Directed by Bille Eltringham
“She left the land of Marks & Spencer and went to the world of Marx and Lenin.”
Comedy, Drama, History · 1h 42m
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.
Cast
Catherine Tate
Dorothy Ratcliffe
Iain Glen
Frank Ratcliffe
Katharina Thalbach
Anna
Heike Makatsch
Frau Unger
Alexander Scheer
Willi
Jessica Barden
Mary Ratcliffe
Brittany Ashworth
Alex Ratcliffe
Nigel Betts
Uncle Philip
Christian Brassington
Thomas
R
Robert Lowe
Otto
O
Ottilia Borbáth
Frau Glock
Imola Gáspár
Art Teacher
Crew
- Director
- Bille Eltringham
- Writer
- Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
- Director of Photography
- Sean Bobbitt
- Original Music Composer
- Rob Lane
- Editor
- John Wilson
- Producer
- Leslee Udwin
Details
- Release date
- 2007-09-28
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, History
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, German
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire, Assassin Films, Pioneer Pictures, MEDIA Programme of the European Union