Venus Peter (1989)
1h 34m
Running Time
March 5, 1989Release Date
Venus Peter (1989)
1h 34m
Running Time
March 5, 1989Release Date
Plot.
Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on land, Peter (Gordon R. Strachan) yearns to go to sea -- or, at the very least, to escape his cloistered community. He finds a kindred spirit in Princess Paloma (Juliet Cadzow), the village "looney," who, alas, is eventually carted away to an institution. Briefly fascinated by poetry and music, thanks to his lovely teacher Miss Balsibie (Sinead Cusack), Peter is disillusioned when he finds his teacher in the arms of her lover (and out of her clothing). The final blow to Peter's idealism comes when his grandfather's ship is repossessed. Despite the bleakness of his surroundings and his seemingly dead-end existence, however, Peter never completely lets go of his dreams, and the film ends on a positive note.
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Cast & Crew.
George Anton
Billy
Ray McAnally
Grandfather
David Hayman
Kinnear
Gordon R Strachan
Peter
Sinéad Cusack
Miss Balsilbie
Louise Breslin
Leebie
Ian Sellar
Director
Juliet Cadzow
Princess Paloma
Christopher Rush
Writer
Caroline Paterson
Mother
Christopher Young
Producer
Peter Caffrey
Father
Jonathan Dove
Composer
Gabriel Beristain
Cinematographer
Emma Dingwall
Jenny
Ken Drury
Gowens
David Spiers
Editor
Sheila Keith
Epp
Mary MacLeod
Miss Sangster
Christopher Fairbank
Blind Man
Alex McAvoy
Beadle
Julia McCarthy
Agnes
Cecil Garson
Gollie
Scott Heddle
Peem
Sam Hayman
Baby Peter
Ray Jeffries
Bank Manager
Robin McCaffrey
Georgina
Alan Tall
McCreevie
Cameron Stout
Bystander
Lorraine Buchan
Bystander
Justin Kimmett
Little Boy
Details.
Wiki.
Venus Peter is a 1989 British 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 on the Orkney Islands, 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.