LETTER TO BREZHNEV

Inspired by his experiences of picking up sailors in his native Liverpool, writer Frank Clarke (until then of TV’s Brookside) ended up penning one of the key British films of the ’80s: a feisty homage to working-class grit, helmed by Chris Bernard, that dared to suggest a life behind the Iron Curtain might be preferable to one beneath the Iron Lady’s jackboot. Peter Firth, Alexandra Pigg, Alfred Molina and Clarke’s sibling Margi make up the romantic fab four whose night on the town has unexpected consequences for all. Neil Smith