The Prisoner of St. Petersburg is a 1989 Australian drama film directed by Ian Pringle. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
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 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 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 as Youth in bar Denis Staunton as Irish man Hans Martin Stier as Truck driver Noah Taylor 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