| Venus Peter | |
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| Directed by | Ian Sellar |
| Written by | Ian Sellar Christopher Rush |
| Produced by | Christopher Young |
| Starring | Gordon R. Strachan Ray McAnally David Hayman Sinéad Cusack Caroline Paterson |
| Cinematography | Gabriel Beristain |
| Edited by | David Spiers |
| Music by | Jonathan Dove |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | £1,310,000[1] |
| Box office | £14,229 (UK)[1] |
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.[2] 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.[3]
Japanese rock band Venus Peter are named after the film.
- ^ a b "Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 30.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Venus Peter". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 3 August 2009.
- ^ Richard Mowe, Top 20 Scottish films of the 20th Century, iofilm Scotland, August 1999