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Jock Petersen

Jock Petersen

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1974

Runtime

1h 47m

Genres

Drama

User Score

33%

Original Title

Petersen

Production Companies

Hexagon Productions, Astral Films, AVCO Embassy Pictures

Director

Tim Burstall

Description

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...