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Petersen

1974, English. Directed by Tim Burstall.

When he wasn't fighting...he was getting in OTHER trouble!

Tony Petersen, a married electrician and ex-footballer, goes to university to study English. Petersen is odd man out at the uni. He receives extracurricular help from his stuffy professor's beautiful lecturer wife in her office. Their get-togethers there are quite rootine. The professor is also seeing one of his students after class. Petersen and the professor's wife talk about having a baby. But then she accepts an appointment to Oxford, provoking a rage in Petersen...

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Released
1 January 1974
Country
Australia
Written by
Tim Burstall

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Petersen (1974) was directed by Tim Burstall and stars Jack Thompson, Jacki Weaver, Wendy Hughes.

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