Letter to Brezhnev

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Letter to Brezhnev
Directed by	Chris Bernard
Produced by	Stephen Woolley Janet Goddard Catherine Spack
Written by	Frank Clarke
Starring	Alfred Molina Peter Firth Tracy Lea Alexandra Pigg Margi Clarke
Music by	Alan Gill
Editing by	Lesley Walker
Distributed by	Channel Four Films
Release date(s)	1985
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
IMDb profile

Ratings
Finland:	K-12
Germany:	16
Sweden:	7
United Kingdom:	15
United States:	R

Letter to Brezhnev is a 1985 film about working class life in contemporary Liverpool. It was written by Frank Clarke and directed by Chris Bernard. It starred Alfred Molina, Peter Firth, Tracy Lea, Alexandra Pigg, Margi Clarke amongst others. Letter To Brezhnev presents Margaret Thatcher's high-unemployment Liverpool as a depressed, dangerous and near hopeless city.

Two Liverpool Lasses, Teresa and Elaine meet two Russian sailors, Sergei and Peter and hook up for a night of fun and frolics. Tresesa is looking for sex and a smile, Elaine wants love, romance and the dream of a life far away from the grime of the Liverpool docklands.

Amongst other themes, it reflects the constraints on working class women's aspirations. It also illustrates that many people do not get the chance to aspire to anything other than the humdrum lives they find before them as they walk away from school. Some of the characters worked in what they called "the chicken factory", a slaughterhouse. Sandie Shaw re-recorded the song Always Something There to Remind Me in 1985 for the soundtrack of the movie Letter to Brezhnev.