Venus Peter

Venus Peter
Directed by	Ian Sellar
Produced by	Christopher Young
Written by	Ian Sellar Christopher Rush
Starring	Gordon R. Strachan Ray McAnally David Hayman Sinéad Cusack Caroline Paterson
Music by	Jonathan Dove
Cinematography	Gabriel Beristain
Editing by	David Spiers
Release date(s)	1989
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£1,200,000

Venus Peter is a 1989 British drama film directed by Ian Sellar and produced by Christopher Young for Young films. The film is an adopation 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.

Cast

• George Anton - Billy
• Louise Breslin - Leebie
• Juliet Cadzow - Queen Paloma
• Peter Caffrey - Father
• Sinéad Cusack - Miss Balsilbie
• Emma Dingwall - Jenny
• Ken Drury - Gowans
• Christopher Fairbanks - Blind man
• Cecil Garson - Gollie
• David Hayman - Kinnear
• Sam Hayman - Baby Peter
• Scott Heddle - Peem
• Ray Jeffries - Bank manager
• Sheila Keith - Epp
• Mary MacLeod - Miss Sangster
• Ray McAnally - Grandpa
• Alex McAvoy - Beadle
• Robin McCaffrey - Georgina
• Julia McCarthy - Agnes
• Caroline Paterson - Mother
• Gordon R. Strachan - Peter
• Alan Tall - McCreevie
• Cameron Stout - Bystander
• Lorraine Buchan - Bystander
• Justin Kimmett - Little Boy

External links

• Venus Peter at the Internet Movie Database
• Venus Peter at AllRovi