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The Prisoner of St. Petersburg (1989)

The Prisoner of St. Petersburg poster
Directed by
Ian Pringle
Genre
drama film
Country
Australia
Runtime
1h 19m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man travels to St. Petersburg on a mysterious mission. He becomes stranded and isolated in a foreign city.

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What happens

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". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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