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