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Cast
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| Alfred Molina | ... | Sergei | |
| Peter Firth | ... | Peter | |
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Tracy Marshak-Nash | ... | Tracy (as Tracy Lea) |
| Alexandra Pigg | ... | Elaine | |
| Margi Clarke | ... | Teresa | |
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Susan Dempsey | ... | Girl in Pub |
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Ted Wood | ... | Mick |
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Carl Chase | ... | Taxi Driver |
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Sharon Power | ... | Charlie's Girl |
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Robbie Dee | ... | Charlie |
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Eddie Ross | ... | Rayner |
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Syd Newman | ... | Dmitri |
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Gerry White | ... | 1st Doorman |
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Pat Riley | ... | 2nd Doorman |
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Wendy Votel | ... | 1st Girl on Bus |
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Two Soviet sailors, Peter and Sergei, go ashore in Liverpool to spend one night on the town. Peter can speak a minimal amount of English but it's enough to make contact with two Liverpudlian natives, Elaine and Theresa. Elaine and Peter immediately fall in love with each other, but the night is short and they must leave with the ship. Elaine can't forget him and writes a letter to Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, asking him to make it possible for them to reunite. Written by Mattias Thuresson
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UKLanguage:
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2 May 1986 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Elaine: He's the man I love, the man I'm gonna marry. And if being with him means going to live in Russia, then that's the way it's gonna be.
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Music by Alexander Alexandrov
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Heard when the Soviet President is seen on screen.
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Alexandra Pigg and Peter Firth are married in real life. See more »Goofs
Elaine says the British embassy did nothing to help her. It is highly unlikely that that she as a British citizen in Britain would have contacted any British embassy, all of which would, by definition, be in other countries. She would have contacted the Foreign Office, which is the authority dealing with foreign affairs and international matters in Britain. The casual viewer might easily confuse the two, but Elaine, who has recently dealt with them, would not make this mistake. See more »Quotes
Father: Who the fuck is this Peter anyway? We've never even met him yet.Elaine: He's the man I love, the man I'm gonna marry. And if being with him means going to live in Russia, then that's the way it's gonna be.
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State Anthem of the Soviet UnionMusic by Alexander Alexandrov
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Heard when the Soviet President is seen on screen.
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Atmospheric, un-slick, and utterly unique, Letter to Brezhnev captures a slice of the 1980s which seems all the more extraordinary in 1999. Graced by realistic acting, deft camera work, and a superb soundtrack, one is successfully transformed to a period and a place, in this case wonderfully dreary Liverpool in the early 80s - New Wave music and the Cold War are in full swing. Such a movie is hip today but rarely achieved. The story may seem a little far-fetched - Liverpool girl (Pigg) gets Russian guy (Firth) with a little help from no less than the Soviet Premier - but some of us who grew up in the 80s like to think that it could. The 80s were like that. Now, we just have awful, cynical, formulaic pap - Reality Bites and Boys on the Side...whine, whine, whine. Why can't more movies like Letter to Brezhnev be made?