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‘The film humanised Russians at a time when Rambo was killing them’: how we made Letter to Brezhnev

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‘The film humanised Russians at a time when Rambo was killing them’: how we made Letter to Brezhnev
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‘All of Kirkby turned out for the premiere – many of them had been extras. And 500 people crammed into my mum’s council house for a party. It’s still talked about’I started banging out the script for this on a typewriter in my scruffy flat in Toxteth, Liverpool, in 1981. Four years later, the film had its British premiere. My idea was for a working-class romance between a couple of girls from my native Kirkby and two Russian sailors on leave around the port of Liverpool, with a subtle political

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