Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution Commences Production for Warner Bros. Pictures

Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution Commences Production for Warner Bros. Pictures

LONDON, August 30/PRNewswire/ -- Principal photography has commenced in Hungary and the UK on
the comedy drama Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution, it was announced today by Warner
Bros. Pictures International. The film is directed by award-winning British
filmmaker Bille Eltringham (The L Word, The Long Firm, This is not a Love
Song) and produced by Leslee Udwin (East is East) from a screenplay by Peter
Straughan and Bridget O'Connor.

Starring Catherine Tate (Love and Other Disasters, The
Catherine Tate Show) as the compassionate Dorothy Ratcliffe, Iain Glen
(Kingdom of Heaven, Tara Road, Resident Evil) as her zealous husband Frank,
and Heike Makatsch (Love Actually) as the beguiling Unger, Mrs Ratcliffe's
Revolution tells the emotional, touching and often hilarious story of one
dysfunctional family's journey from 1968 West Yorkshire to 19-below-freezing
East Germany and back again.

Uprooted by Frank's passion for Marx and Lenin and a desire to
escape the world of Marks & Spencer, the naive Ratcliffe family follows
Frank's dream from a bleak but free England to state-controlled East Germany.
With two daughters, rebellious teenager Alex and precociously talented
12-year-old Mary, as well as eccentric brother-in-law Phillip, Frank and
Dorothy embark upon a life-changing journey to survive the rigid constraints
of communist-controlled, depressed East German life and find their true
calling. In protecting her family and her personal moral code, Dorothy
discovers an inner strength and passion to assist in defections to the west,
planning her family's escape in her very own revolution.

Director Bille Eltringham has reunited her successful
award-winning production team from The Long Firm, including production
designer Malcolm Thornton (Othello, Oliver Twist, Vanity Fair), director of
photography Sean Bobbit (Wonderland) and composer Rob Lane (Daniel Deronda,
The Lost World). John Wilson (Billy Elliot) joins the team as editor.

Richard Fox, Executive Vice President, International, Warner
Bros. commented "In depicting a unique place and time, Mrs Ratcliffe's
Revolution tells a story that is at once intimate and universal. We're
delighted to work with Bille and her team on this exciting production."

Leslee Udwin, Producer added: "I am thrilled to be shooting
this wonderful film. I could not wish for a more talented director, cast and
team to help me realise this dream. Since East is East, I have been searching
for a suitable inspiring project with heart warming and comedic values which
I could feel passionate about producing and I am delighted to have found that
in Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution."

Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution will be released in UK in 2007 by
Warner Bros. Pictures. A Leslee Udwin/Assassin Films and UK Film Council
Production in association with Screen Yorkshire.

For more information, please contact:

Images are available via www.image.net from 4.00pm on 30th August 2006.

Notes to Editors :

SCREEN YORKSHIRE is the regional screen agency - the gateway to the best
in film, broadcast and interactive media in the Yorkshire and Humber region.
Screen Yorkshire works to attract productions to the region by investing in
feature film and television drama series and developing the infrastructure
and skilled workforce needed to market the region nationally and
internationally as a production base. MRS RATCLIFFE'S REVOLUTION is supported
by Screen Yorkshire's production fund, which launched in 2003. To date, the
Production Fund has invested in productions such as LIKE MINDS, the only
UK/Australian co-production to be shot in the UK for a decade; MISCHIEF
NIGHT, written and directed by Penny Woolcock (TINA GOES SHOPPING) and THIS
IS ENGLAND, the fifth feature from critically acclaimed writer / director
Shane Meadows, produced by Sheffield based Warp films.

For further information visit www.screenyorkshire.co.uk

Source: Warner Bros. Pictures International

Warner Bros. Publicity UK: Jayne Trotman / Louisa Radcliffe, +44-(0)207-984-5000, jayne.trotman@warnerbros.com / Louisa.radcliffe@warnerbros.com. Unit Publicist: Marc Allen, +44-(0)7976-916-601, marc.allen@pathe-uk.com

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