''The Prisoner of St. Petersburg'' is a 1989 Australian
drama film
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directed by
Ian Pringle.
It was screened in the
Un Certain Regard
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The section presents 20 films w ...
section at the
1989 Cannes Film Festival
The 42nd Cannes Film Festival was held from 11 to 23 May 1989. The Palme d'Or went to ''Sex, Lies, and Videotape'' by Steven Soderbergh.
The festival opened with ''New York Stories'', anthology film directed by Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, ...
.
The film was the first Australian-West German co-production. It was shot over 22 days in Germany.
''The Prisoner of St Petersberg'' at ''Melbourne International Film Festival''
accessed 21 November 2012 David Stratton
David James Stratton (born 10 September 1939) is an English-Australian award-winning film critic, as both a journalist and interviewer, film historian and lecturer and television personality and producer.
Life and career
Born in Trowbridge, ...
wrote that the film "appeared to be commercially doomed from the beginning".[David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p112]
Cast
* Efrem Accurso as Italian truck driver
* Ifrim Bender as Russian man with coat
* Solveig Dommartin
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Her acting career began in the theatre with Compagnie Timothee Laine and with the Theater Labor Warschau. She had her first experiences with film as an assistant of Jacques ...
as Elena
* Johanna Karl-Lory as Old woman
* Lars Michalak as Russian man behind door
* Michael Obinja as Russian man on train
* Pat O'Connell as Singing Irish man
* Olivier Picot as Stefan
* René Schönenberger as Businessman
* Wieland Speck
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as Youth in bar
* Denis Staunton as Irish man
* Hans Martin Stier
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as Truck driver
* Noah Taylor
Noah George Taylor (born 4 September 1969) is a British-born Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as teenage David Helfgott in '' Shine'', Locke in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', Darby Sabini in the BBC One series ''Peaky Bli ...
as Jack
* Katja Teichmann as Johanna
* Ralph Wittgrebe as German drunk
* Christian Zertz as Lorenzo
References
External links
*
''The Prisoner of St Petersburg''
at Oz Movies
1989 films
1989 drama films
Films directed by Ian Pringle
Australian drama films
1980s English-language films
1980s Australian films
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