Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution

She left the land of Marks & Spencer and went to the world of Marx and Lenin.

APPROPIATE

2007 / 102min.

Rating6.8

Genres

Comedy

Synopsis

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.

Directors

Actors

Iain Glen

Jessica Barden

Catherine Tate

Heike Makatsch

Alexander Scheer

Brittany Ashworth

Nigel Betts

Uwe Lauer

Katharina Thalbach

Christian Brassington

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