The Prisoner of St. Petersburg
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. David Stratton wrote that the film "appeared to be commercially doomed from the beginning".
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