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The Gambler

  • 1997
  • R
  • 1 h 37 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
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Jodhi May, Polly Walker, and Dominic West in The Gambler (1997)
BiographyDramaRomance

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaRussian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Sir Michael Gambon) must write a novel in twenty-seven days in a deal to pay off his gambling debts, and feverishly dictates the novel "The Gambler".Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Sir Michael Gambon) must write a novel in twenty-seven days in a deal to pay off his gambling debts, and feverishly dictates the novel "The Gambler".Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Sir Michael Gambon) must write a novel in twenty-seven days in a deal to pay off his gambling debts, and feverishly dictates the novel "The Gambler".

  • Direção
    • Károly Makk
  • Roteiristas
    • Fyodor Dostoevsky
    • Katharine Ogden
    • Charles Cohen
  • Artistas
    • Michael Gambon
    • Jodhi May
    • Polly Walker
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    6,3/10
    460
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    • Direção
      • Károly Makk
    • Roteiristas
      • Fyodor Dostoevsky
      • Katharine Ogden
      • Charles Cohen
    • Artistas
      • Michael Gambon
      • Jodhi May
      • Polly Walker
    • 8Avaliações de usuários
    • 12Avaliações da crítica
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    • Prêmios
      • 3 vitórias e 3 indicações no total

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    Michael Gambon
    Michael Gambon
    • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
    Jodhi May
    Jodhi May
    • Anna Snitkina
    Polly Walker
    Polly Walker
    • Polina
    Dominic West
    Dominic West
    • Alexei
    Luise Rainer
    Luise Rainer
    • Grandmother
    William Houston
    William Houston
    • Pasha
    Johan Leysen
    Johan Leysen
    • De Grieux
    John Wood
    John Wood
    • The General
    Angeline Ball
    Angeline Ball
    • Mlle. Blanche
    Marjon Brandsma
    • Mme. de Cominges
    Mark Lacey
    • Ivan
    Gijs Scholten van Aschat
    Gijs Scholten van Aschat
    • Maikov
    Lucy Davis
    Lucy Davis
    • Dunya
    András Fekete
    • Potapych
    Patrick Godfrey
    Patrick Godfrey
    • Professor Olkhin
    Greet Groot
    • Ustinya
    Tom Jansen
    • Stellovsky
    Miklós Székely B.
    Miklós Székely B.
    • Anna's Father
    • Direção
      • Károly Makk
    • Roteiristas
      • Fyodor Dostoevsky
      • Katharine Ogden
      • Charles Cohen
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    nunculus

    Forget Travolta, forget Burt Reynolds, forget Robert Forster...this is the real comeback

    Luise Rainer more or less vanished after winning a couple of Oscars for Louis B. Mayer in the thirties. My biographical snooping doesn't yield much in the way of clues, but it seems likely that, Louise Brooks-like, Rainer had simply had it with the movie colony. She has been plucked out of retirement only on brief occasions since the end of the Second World War, but never so spectacularly as in Karoly Makk's adaptation of Dostoevsky's THE GAMBLER.

    As the antihero's dowager-empress grandma, Rainer has two big scenes: they're all about the strange, giddy, self-annihilating glee the old bat experiences discovering what the fun of roulette is all about. Rainer looks and feels like a jaunty, no-cares twenty-five-year-old girl in old-age makeup. (This performance may, for all I know, be a Bowfinger-like stunt by Angelina Jolie.) Rainer, who came into pictures just as sound came in, has a post-Stanislavskian snap that you can't explain. She should be paraded across the screen like a bull elephant, as with Gloria Stuart in TITANIC or James Cagney in RAGTIME, but she gives an electrifying performance. You can feel the audience come alive every minute her face fills the screen.

    The rest of this threadbare period piece is ruins. At a curt but not brisk 97 minutes, the movie seems to have been hacked down to cable-softcore-movie length by the front office. Karoly Makk gets special dispensation for that crime, but in honesty it doesn't look as if there were much here in the first place. The movie details the 27 days in which Dostoevsky had to write THE GAMBLER or lose all rights to his future work, and it manages to convey exactly nothing about obsession, creation, lust, destitution, joy, connivance, religiosity, or gambling. (It does scarcely better with epilepsy and foot fetishism.) Michael Gambon, a hangdog piece of British baggage who gave great performances in the works of Peter Greenaway and Dennis Potter, gives a stagy, self-absorbed performance as Dostoevsky. The other non-Rainer personnel fare scarcely better--except for a couple of weirdly out-of-place Page Six hotties who seem contrived to be a duet of existential Spice Girls.
    8spj-4

    an entertaining period piece & biography

    Though I had not previously heard of this movie "The Gambler", I found it a very pleasant surprise as a late night TV movie. It told the story of a Russian author & portrayed some of the characters significant to his life & writings, & that his secretary Anna, who was penning his manuscript for him. I do not know how close to Dostoyevsky's real life this setting was, but I do know that he was jailed as a political activist in his youth, flung in with the struggles & downtrodden lives of anyone from petty criminals to hardened murderers, in extremely oppressive jails that were often a source for the characters in his novels.

    This movie does an admirable job of portraying the addictive aspect of gambling, tempting & drawing the characters as well as the viewer, into the world of casinos frequently by the rich, the curious & the desperate. But just as intriguing is the secondary plot of this movie, which looks in the complexities of relationships of some of the characters involved in the gambling & how easily it escalates beyond the imagination of those partaking in such thrills. Amidst all this, we gain a glimpse into the underlying passions, the romance, the ambiguous motives, even of Dostoyevsky & this young lady presented as of much more ethical substance than one who'd governed Dostoyevsky's heart from his youth.

    I thought the acting is also very good, both from Michael Gambon as the author & Jodhi May as Anna, his pen. The street & casino settings are likewise impressive. All in all, "The Gambler" is a worthy detour for a couple of hours, into the lives of the protagonists & those they portray.
    7bkoganbing

    Luck Be A Lady To Fyodor

    Someone decided that the story of Fyodor Dostoyevsky writing The Gambler might be a better story than the novella itself. Thus this film The Gambler came into being.

    Michael Gambon plays Dostoyevsky who is really under the gun. He should have had a lawyer looking over the contract he signed with a publisher. He had a year to deliver a novel to them and if he didn't everything word he ever would write would belong to that selfsame publisher. Of course our friend Fyodor spent the advance quite liberally on his pleasures and now he's got only a month to deliver a book.

    So Gambon takes the unusual step of hiring a live-in stenographer to take down his words played by Jodhi May. She gets to live and observe the Dostoyevsky family their talents and their excesses. From which came the novella The Gambler.

    Gambon plays Dostoyevsky as a man like a lot of gifted people, someone whose talents seem to entitle them to excessive behavior. To be sure this also was a man survived Siberian exile and is probably enjoying the fleshpots of Moscow as much as he can.

    The Gambler is also the final appearance of recent centenarian Luise Rainer. She plays the live person who became the grandmother in the novella who threw her fortune away at roulette. Unless someone gets the idea to team Luise with upcoming centenarian Gloria Stuart and wouldn't that be an interesting film, I doubt she's doing another. It's worth it to see her give one bravura performance.

    Great literature gets born under unusual circumstances. Talk about publish or perish. The Gambler is an interesting piece on the life of its creator Fyodor Doestoyevsky.
    8sydneypatrick

    A surprisingly engaging story

    Based on the true events of the writing of The Gambler, Dostoyevsky meets the much younger Anna when she comes to him as stenographer. This is as much a tale of chaste love as it is romantic, and the interweaving of the fiction they scramble to put together in order to keep him out of debt (and avoid losing the rights to all his works, both present and future!) with the elements of their reality is seamless and thoroughly engaging. The incomprable Louis Ranier shows up long enough to lose her fortune at the roulette table -- and the entire movie in three short scenes. I highly recommend this for fans of unconventional love stories and Masterpiece Theater. Those whose tastes run a bit faster may find themselves bored by the pacing and lack of flesh (but for Polly Walker's beautiful backside in one spicy scene). All in all, this one was much better than anticipated and I wouldn't mind keeping it in my collection.
    5sibisi73

    Still scene stealing after 50 years.

    Makk's take on the 27 days Dostoyevsky worked to complete the novel 'Rouletenberg' is a mediocre attempt to inject some kind of passion into a direly dull subject. Themes of obsession and lust are all there bubbling under the surface but we never get under the skin of it, we never really go through the experience with Dostoyevsky, which ultimately means we hardly give a care.

    The saving grace in amongst some incredibly earnest, yet unaffecting performances, is Luise Rainer's mesmerising ten, or so, minutes on screen. All wide-eyed and full of charm, she steals the movie,as the Grandmother relishing the chance to play at roulette for the first time. The anticipation, delight, and despair in this brief appearance leave you wanting more. Sadly, there isn't any!

    Makk's film looks good, with the requisite period detail, and atmospheric slo-mo, and overlapping repeat shots, but with such a lacklustre story it didn't really ignite any enthusiasm in this viewer.

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    • Curiosidades
      This was two-time Best Actress Oscar winner Luise Rainer's first theatrical movie since Reféns (1943).
    • Erros de gravação
      (at around 32 mins) In the story-within-a-story supposedly being written by Dostoevsky in 1866, a woman says, "Would you like to play canasta, General?" Canasta was not invented until 1939, some 58 years after Dostoevsky's death.
    • Conexões
      Referenced in Downton Abbey II: Uma Nova Era (2022)

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 7 de novembro de 1997 (Reino Unido)
    • Países de origem
      • Países Baixos
      • Hungria
      • Reino Unido
    • Idiomas
      • Inglês
      • Húngaro
    • Também conhecido como
      • Kumarbaz
    • Locações de filme
      • Hungria
    • Empresas de produção
      • Canal Plus Image International
      • Channel Four Films
      • Gambler Productions
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    • Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 9.133
    • Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 6.317
      • 8 de ago. de 1999
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    • Tempo de duração
      1 hora 37 minutos
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      • Dolby Digital
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      • 1.66 : 1

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