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Petersen is a 1974 Australian drama film directed by Tim Burstall . Petersen was a box office success and received wide distribution in the UK and US under the title Jock Petersen. Petersen is first and foremost a sobering critique of Australian life in the early 1970s.
Jan 30, 2023 · Petersen is a 1974 Australian drama film directed by Tim Burstall. Petersen was a box office success and received wide distribution in the UK and US under th...
Petersen: Directed by Tim Burstall. With Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Wendy Hughes, Arthur Dignam. A married electrician and former football star begins a degree in English at university, where he has an affair with his professor's wife.
Tony Petersen is an electrical tradesman and former football star who is studying arts at the University of Melbourne, and majoring in English. Despite being married to adoring wife Susie, he is having an affair with his lecturer, Trish Kent, and has a fling with student Moira as part of a protest.
Based on an original screenplay by David Williamson ( Don’s Party ), Australia’s leading playwright, Petersen brilliantly captures the complexities and contradictions of Australian society in the early 1970s, from the sharp-edged class divisions to the burgeoning sexual revolution.
Petersen is a very bleak film about people who have lost faith. Pete and his wife Marg are without passion, Petersen’s clergyman father no longer believes in God, Charles’s mistress Jane is bored, and Susie feels she is losing the man she married.
14 titles. Sort by List order. 1. I Will Kill You, Wolf. 1971 1h. 6.0 (69) Rate. A young woman takes the train to Berlin. She wants to kill her friend Wolf, a theater actor. When the woman meets him, he tells her about his weird wife. Director Wolfgang Petersen Stars Wolf Roth Ursula Sieg Tilly Zinner. 2. One or the Other. 1974 1h 45m. 6.9 (288)
