| 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 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. [2] 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.
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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.
