Petersen (film)

Petersen is a 1974 Australian drama film directed by Tim Burstall.

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. Trishs husband Charles fails Petersen in his exams and Trish leaves for Oxford. Petersen rapes Trish and returns to his old life.Burstall wanted to make the story as the first film from Hexagon Productions and commissioned David Williamson to write a screenplay, the original title of which was Sittin and Tony Petersen. However Williamson was working on many projects at the time so Hexagon made two Alvin Purple films instead. ........

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