The Gambler(1997 film)
Appearance
The Gambler | |
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Directed by | Károly Makk |
Screenplay by | Katharine Ogden Charles Cohen Nick Dear |
Produced by | Charles Cohen Frank Jansen René Seegers Berry van Zwieten Marc Vlessing |
Cinematography | Jules van den Steenhoven |
Edited by | Kevin Whelan |
Music by | Brian Lock Gerard Schurmann |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
The Gambleris a 1997drama filmdirected byKároly Makkand starringMichael Gambon,Jodhi MayandPolly Walker.It is set around the writing of the 1866 novelThe GamblerbyFyodor Dostoyevsky.[1]
The film was notable for its casting ofLuise Rainer.The Oscar-winning actress had not made a film in fifty-four years prior to her appearance in this one.
Plot summary
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Cast
[edit]- Michael Gambon... Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Jodhi May... Anna Snitkina
- Polly Walker... Polina
- Dominic West... Alexei
- Luise Rainer... Grandmother
- Will Houston... Pasha
- Johan Leysen... De Grieux
- John Wood... The General
- Angeline Ball... Mlle. Blanche
- Marjon Brandsma... Mme. de Cominges
- Mark Lacey... Ivan
- Gijs Scholten van Aschat... Maikov
- Lucy Davis... Dunya
- András Fekete... Potapych
- Patrick Godfrey... Professor Olkhin
- Greet Groot... Ustinya
- Tom Jansen... Stellovsky
- Miklós Székely B.... Anna's Father
- Vera Venczel... Anna's Mother
- János Xantus... Karl
- Ed De Bruin... Croupier I
- Vittoria De Bruin... Middle Aged Woman
- Zoltán Gera... Creditor
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Categories:
- 1997 films
- 1997 drama films
- British drama films
- Hungarian drama films
- Dutch drama films
- British films about gambling
- Biographical films about writers
- English-language Dutch films
- English-language Hungarian films
- Films directed by Károly Makk
- Films set in 1866
- Films about gambling
- Works about Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- 1990s British films
- 1990s British film stubs
- Hungarian film stubs