Midnight in Saint Petersburg
Date: 1996
Director: Douglas Jackson
Production Company: Lenfilm Studio
Stars: Michael Caine, Jason Connery, Michael Sarrazin, Tanya Jackson
Location(s): Saint Petersburg (Russia)
Region(s): Rest Of The World
Storyline:
Harry Palmer is back but this time in Russia searching for missing plutonium. This production was shot back to back with ‘Bullet to Beijing’ so making a total of five Palmer films. SJ
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- Capture 1
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Caine in possibly Moscow where the opening is set but more likely St. Petersburg since the majority of the action takes place in the latter.
- Capture 2
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This is the entrance to Caine's office in Moscow.
- Capture 3
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The dog with a letter bomb. A typical Russian building numbers and huge drainpipes.
- Capture 4
- 01 Jul 2017
A couple of clues here! Station in Russian is translates as voksal, and it is widely believed that this is derived from Vauxhall station in south London where a Russian delegation first saw a railway station in 1840.
This is the roof of Vitebsky voksal seen from Vinokurtsevskiy pr-d in Saint Petersburg which runs along the east side of the station. (PW)
- Capture 5
- 01 Jul 2017
Caine and Connery outside the station.
Looking towards the junction of Vvedenskiy kanal and Zagorodnyi prospekt in St. Petersburg 198013. (PW)
- Capture 6
- 01 Jul 2017
This is outside the front of St Petersburg–Vitebsky station on Zagorodnyi prospekt in the south west of the city.
Facing north east at the same location. (PW)
- Capture 7
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Caine and Connery
- Capture 8
- 01 Jul 2017
The two walk together.
Looking towards Shpalernaya ulista from Tverskaya ulista with ulista Proletarskoy Diktatury to the right. (PW)
- Capture 9
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Police station
- Capture 10
- 01 Jul 2017
Connery again.
Ulista Proletarskoy Diktatury with the top of Sobór Smolny (Smolny Convent of the Resurrection) just visible above the trees of sad-parter Smolnogo. (PW)
- Capture 11
- 01 Jul 2017
Harry Hulme advises that Caine is looking at, in order of proximity to him, a) the Kazan Cathedral colonnades, b) the parapet of the canal 'bridge' which is really an extensive courtyard and main road (Nevsky Prospekt), c) The Kutuzov statue, d) the high domed entrance to the Singer building (far left), and finally, in the distance on the right, The Church on the Spilled Blood. Everything has been foreshortened by the camera's depth of field setting which has made the background look huge.
A similar view along the Griboyedov channel (canal), without the depth of focus. (PW)
- Capture 12
- 01 Jul 2017
The Griboyedov canal.
This is looking from the east embankment of the Griboyedov channel towards the corner of Ulica Lomonosova to the right. (PW)
- Capture 13
- 01 Jul 2017
In the background stands the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood with Kazan Cathedral to the left. SJ
A wider shot taken from Bank Bridge, crossing Griboyedov channel. (PW)
- Capture 14
- 01 Jul 2017
This is Moskovskya Ploshchad which is on the main route into Saint Petersburg from the airport. SJ
Looking towards the corner of Demonstratsionnyy pr-d and ulista Tiponova with the House of Soviets to the right. (PW)
- Capture 15
- 01 Jul 2017
A death in front of Lenin's statue, out of shot on Moskovsky Prospekt.
Looking towards Leninskiy Prospekt across Moskovsky Avenue from Moskovsky Prospekt with new high rise buildings in the distance. (PW)
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Connery in an interior: must be The Hermitage
- Capture 17
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Difficult but chromatic.
- Capture 18
- 01 Jul 2017
One of St. Petesburg's many waterways.
Not much change in this view of Lomonosov Bridge crossing the Fontanka River between Place Lomonosov and ulica Lomonosov. (PW)
- Capture 19
- 01 Jul 2017
The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.
The Winter Palace Garden looking towards the south-western side of the former Winter Palace, now the State Hermitage Museum. (PW)
- Capture 20
- 01 Jul 2017
The Hermitage again.
To the north-west of Palace Square with the State Hermitage Museum as the backdrop. (PW)
- Capture 21
- 01 Jul 2017
By the River Neva.
A little more commercial now, this is Palace Embankment on the south bank of the River with Troitskiy Bridge in the distance. (PW)
- Capture 22
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- Capture 23
- 01 Jul 2017
Picturesque. It's Smolny Cathedral on Rastrelli Square advises Harry Hulme.
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- Capture 24
- 01 Jul 2017
Caine doing a David Frost impression.
Confirmed to be in front of Smolny Cathedral in Place Rastrelli, Saint Petersburg, Russia. (PW)