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Midnight in Saint Petersburg is a 1996 made-for-television thriller film starring Michael Caine for the fifth and final time as British secret agent Harry Palmer.[1]

Midnight in Saint Petersburg
Genre	Thriller
Based on	Characters by Len Deighton
Screenplay by	Peter Welbeck
Directed by	Douglas Jackson
Starring	Michael Caine Jason Connery Michelle Rene Thomas Michael Gambon Michael Sarrazin Tanya Jackson
Music by	Rick Wakeman
Country of origin	Canada United Kingdom Russia
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Harry Alan Towers
Producers	Edward Simons Kent Walwin Aleksandr Golutva John Dunning André Link
Production locations	Montréal St. Petersburg, Russia
Cinematography	Peter Benison
Editor	Vidal Beique
Running time	86 minutes
Production companies	Quebec 3099-3018 Harry Palmer Productions Lenfilm
Distributor	Viacom
Release
Original network	Showtime
Picture format	Colour
Audio format	Dolby Stereo
Original release	14 February 1996 (1996-02-14)
Chronology
Preceded by	Bullet to Beijing (1995)

It served as a sequel to Bullet to Beijing, which had been released the year before, the two films having been shot back-to-back. Three previous films featuring Caine as Palmer were released in the 1960s, beginning with The Ipcress File.[2]

Plot

Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nick" Petrov (Jason Connery), ex-CIA agent Craig (Michael Sarrazin), and ex-KGB Colonel Gradsky (Lev Prygunov[3]). They take on the job of finding 1000 grams of weapons-grade plutonium stolen from the Russian government, though they do not know the identity of their client.

This leads Harry back to Saint Petersburg, where (in Bullet to Beijing) he managed to make enemies of both of the leading rival gangsters, Alex (Michael Gambon) and Yuri (Anatoli Davydov). Nonetheless, suspecting that Alex is involved, Harry talks Yuri into helping him.

As a complication, Nick's ballerina girlfriend Tatiana (Tanya Jackson) is kidnapped by a gang working for Alex into order to pressure her father, the head curator of the Hermitage Museum, into helping steal valuable artwork for crooked art dealer Dr. Vestry (Serge Houde). Also in the mix is reporter Brandy (Michelle Burke), who turns out also to be working for Alex. Nick is captured when he goes looking for Tatiana, but manages to escape in time to assist Harry, with Yuri's help, foil both schemes.

Cast

• Michael Caine as Harry Palmer
• Jason Connery as Nikolai Petrov
• Yuri Limonty as Circus Clown
• Tanya Jackson as Tatiana Zavarzina
• Michael Scherer (actor) as Mafiosa
• Michelle Burke as Brandy
• Gabriel Vorobyov as Driver
• Michael Sarrazin as Craig Warner
• Michael Gambon as Alexei Alexeyevich
• Lev Prygunov as Colonel Gradsky
• Olga Anokhina as Greta
• Yuriy Petrov as General Kornikov
• Anatoli Davydov as Yuri Stephanovich
• Serge Houde as Dr. Armand Vestry
• Ingolf Gorges as Club Manager
• Evgeny Zharikov as Feodor Zavarzin
• Vera Bykova-Pizhel as Maria Zavarzina
• Vladimir Yeryomin as Boris
• John Dunn-Hill as Louis
• Vlasta Vrana as Hans Schreiber
• Mia Sara as Natasha

References

External links

• Midnight in Saint Petersburg at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Midnight in Saint Petersburg

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[ru] Полночь в Санкт-Петербурге

«Полночь в Санкт-Петербурге» (англ.: Midnight in Saint Petersburg)— шпионский фильм 1995 года канадского режиссёра Дугласа Джексона.

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