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Prisoner of St Petersburg, The

AUSTRALIA/GERMANY CO-PRODUCTION

Year of completion: 1989
Content type: Narrative Content
Format: Feature
Genre: Drama
Duration: 82 minutes
Production Status: Completed

A young Australian, Jack, is stranded penniless and starving in West Berlin after an unsuccessful search for his dream city of pre-revolution St Petersburg. At the point of despair he is befriended by two German girls and the trio spend an unusual night on the town together.

Completion Year: 1989
Genres: Drama
Format: Feature
Production Status: Completed

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Cast

Noah Taylor, Solveig Dommartin, Katja Teichmann

Awards

1989 — Belgium Royal Archive Film Festival – Prize for Distribution of Quality Films

1989 — International Film Festival Rotterdam – Critics Award

Screenings

1990 — Antwerp Film Festival

1989 — Australian Film Event Tokyo

1989 — Belgium Royal Archive Film Festival

1989 — Gijon International Film Festival For Young People

1990 — International Film Festival Of India

1989 — IFP - Market

1993 — Madrid Film Week

1989 — Moscow International Film Festival

1989 — Montreal World Film Festival

1984 — Montreal World Film Festival

1990 — Seattle International Film Festival

1989 — Vancouver International Film Festival

1989 — Cannes Film Festival

1989 — International Film Festival Rotterdam

1989 — Sao Paulo International Film Festival

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Daniel Scharf Productions Pty Ltd

Production Company

Daniel Scharf Productions Pty Ltd

Panorama Films

Seon Films International Pty Ltd

Prisoner of St Petersburg, The

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