The Gambler

Overview

The film script for a major film from Channel Four Films and Canal+ Image International, from director Karoly Makk and producer Marc Vlessing. Starring Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West and Luise Rainer. Dostoevsky, impoverished by gambling debts and desperate, makes a Faustian contract with his publisher: In return for an advance he agrees to deliver a novel within a year or lose all rights to his existing and future works. Twenty-seven days before the manuscript is due, he has still not begun work. Despairing, he hires a stenographer, Ann Snitkina, whose passionate determination urges him on to finish the book, saving his career. This true story of Dostoevsky's love affair with Anna Snitkina, the woman he later married is interwoven with scenes from his novella, The Gambler, as he dictates it.

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Bio of Fyodor Doestoyevsky

( 1821 AD - 1881 AD), Renowned Russian author and one of Russia's chief literary figures. Dostoevsky is known for his vital style of writing and timeless characters. Highly influential, he is regarded by some as an originator of existentialism. Dostoevsky was educated at St. Petersburg's Military Engineering Academy. In 1849, he was jailed for rebelling against the Tsar. The same year he was sent to a prison camp in Siberia for participating in anti-government activities. After his release in 1854, he served in the Siberian Regiment for the next five years - an experience which altered his thinking and views. The period from 1873 to 1881 was Dostoevsky's most productive as a writer. His monthly journal, The Writer's Diary, was a huge success. His major writings include The Double: A Petersburg Poem (1846), The Village of Stepanchikovo or The Friend of the Family (1859), A Nasty Story (1862), Crime and Punishment (1866), The Raw Youth or the Adolescent (1875), and The Brothers Karamazov (1880).

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Imprint

A&C Black

Filesize

2.38 MB

Number of Pages

160

eBook ISBN

9781408119105