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The Prisoner of St. Petersburg is a film of genre Drama with Solveig Dommartin
The Prisoner of St. Petersburg (1989)
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Add to a movie listThe 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".
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