Venus Peter is a 1989 Scottish film directed by Ian Sellar and produced by Christopher Young for Young films. The film is an adaptation of the novel A Twelvemonth and a Day by Christopher Rush. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. It was filmed in Orkney, in the North of Scotland. The film crew paid members of the Orkney community to act as extras in the film.
In 1999 Richard Mowe, curator of film at the National Museum of Scotland, chose the film as one of his top twenty Scottish films of the century.
Japanese rock band Venus Peter are named after the film.
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Plot
The film is set on a northern isle of Scotland in the 1940s and follows young Peter and his relationship in the mainly adult world of the fishing village and his relationship with the sea and fishing boats (foremost of which is Kirkcaldy-registered KY199). The most important relationship is between Peter and his fisherman grandfather.
Cast
George Anton as Billy
Louise Breslin as Leebie
Juliet Cadzow as Princess Paloma
Peter Caffrey as Father
Sinéad Cusack as Miss Balsilbie
Emma Dingwall as Jenny
Ken Drury as Gowans
Christopher Fairbank as Blind man
Cecil Garson as Gollie
David Hayman as Kinnear
Sam Hayman as Baby Peter
Scott Heddle as Peem
Ray Jeffries as Bank manager
Sheila Keith as Epp
Mary MacLeod as Miss Sangster
Ray McAnally as Grandpa
Alex McAvoy as Beadle
Robin McCaffrey as Georgina
Julia McCarthy as Agnes
Caroline Paterson as Mother
Gordon R. Strachan as Peter
Alan Tall as McCreevie
Cameron Stout as Bystander
Lorraine Buchan as Bystander
Justin Kimmett as Little Boy
Martin Brown as child in class