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She left the land of Marks & Spencer and went to the world of Marx and Lenin. - Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution
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Title: Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution

Release Date: 28 Sep 2007

Runtime: 1h 42m

Genre: Comedy

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Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 6.7 (11 votes)

Cast

  • Dorothy Ratcliffe: Catherine Tate
  • Frank Ratcliffe: Iain Glen
  • Anna: Katharina Thalbach
  • Frau Unger: Heike Makatsch
  • Willi: Alexander Scheer
  • Mary Ratcliffe: Jessica Barden
  • Alex Ratcliffe: Brittany Ashworth
  • Uncle Philip: Nigel Betts
  • Thomas: Christian Brassington
  • Otto: Robert Lowe
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