William Markus
Karl William Marcus( 12 January 1917 – 10 October 1989) was a Finnish film director, actor and screenwriter who used the screenname William Markus.
He directed 13 films between 1953 and 1965.
His film" Miriam" was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.
Markus was born in Liverpool, England, to a Finnish father and an English mother.
Miriam (film)
Miriam is a 1957 Finnish drama film directed by William Markus.
It was entered into the 8th Berlin International Film Festival.
Alexandra Pigg
Alexandra Pigg( born 1962 in Knotty Ash, Liverpool) is a British actress who first came to prominence as Petra Taylor in the TV soap opera" Brookside".
Her best- known film appearances are as Elaine in" Letter to Brezhnev"( 1985), for which she was nominated for a BAFTA award, and as Bridget Baines in" A Chorus of Disapproval"( 1988).
Rumbi Katedza
Rumbi Katedza is a Zimbabwean Film Producer and Director who was born on 17 January 1974.
Angela Clarke (British actress)
Angela Clarke( born 1969 in Liverpool, Lancashire) is an English actress best known for playing Colette Daly in the television drama series" Soldier Soldier".
She has also appeared in" BrooksideCoronation StreetLiverpool 1 The Bill Pie in the Sky" and" Casualty".
She is the younger sister of actress Margi Clarke(" Coronation Street" and" Family Affairs"), with whom she appeared in the films" Letter to Brezhnev"( 1985) and" Blonde Fist"( 1991), and screenwriter Frank Clarke(" Brookside" and" Letter to Brezhnev").
Edward Yates
Edward J. Yates( September 16, 1918 – June 2, 2006) was an American television director who was the director of the ABC television program" American Bandstand" from 1952 until 1969.
Letter to Brezhnev
Letter to Brezhnev is a 1985 British romantic comedy film about working class life in contemporary Liverpool.
It was written by Frank Clarke and directed by Chris Bernard.
It starred Alexandra Pigg, Margi Clarke, Alfred Molina, Peter Firth and Tracy Marshak- Nash( credited as Tracy Lea).
" Letter To Brezhnev" presents Margaret Thatcher's high- unemployment Liverpool as a depressed and tough city, fallen on hard times.
Two young women from Kirkby, a rough suburb of Liverpool, Teresa and Elaine, meet two Russian sailors, Sergei and Peter, and hook up for a night of fun and frolics.
Teresa is looking for sex and a smile, Elaine wants love, romance and the dream of a life far away from the grime of Liverpool.
Amongst other themes, it reflects the constraints on working class women's dreams.
It also shows 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.
It also reflects hope and ambition as despite awful odds, the protagonists pursue their dreams.
For the soundtrack for the film Sandie Shaw re-recorded the song" Always Something There to Remind Me".
Also on the soundtrack was the Bronski Beat song" Hit That Perfect Beat" which was a hit in Australia and the UK.
An early scene is filmed in the State Nightclub, a famous Liverpool venue in the 80's.
Chris Bernard
Chris Bernard (born 20 October 1955) is an English film director.
He has directed eight films since 1985.
He was born in Liverpool, England and started his professional career in the theatre.
In 1977 he developed an old warehouse, in Matthew Street, Liverpool into a theatre venue and was a founder member and Company Manager of the acclaimed Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool which went on to open the National Theatre- Cottesloe Theatre with their celebrated production of ILLUMINATUS!
Written and directed by Ken Campbell & Chris Langham and starring Prunella Gee, Jim Broadbent and David Rappaport.
Bernard directed his first play The Immortalist by Heathcote Williams and went on to direct others, most notably "The Maids" by Jean Genet, Lainey Robertson’s "The Insanity of Mary Girard and Heroes", about the war poet Wilfred Owen.
After working as a script writer for the Channel 4 soap opera "Brookside".
His debut film was "Letter to Brezhnev".
Hassan Zee
Hassan Zee is a Pakistani- American film director who was born in Chakwal, Pakistan.
W. Augustus Barratt
W. Augustus Barratt( 1873- 1947) was a Scottish- born, later American, songwriter and musician.

Question: Which film has the director who was born later, Miriam (Film) or Letter To Brezhnev?
Answer: Letter To Brezhnev