The Gamblers (2007 film)
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Director Sebastian Bieniek Budget 2,000 EUR Duration Country Germany | 8.2/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Sebastian Bieniek Writer Sebastian Bieniek Language German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 20, 2007 (2007-06-20) (Shanghai Film Festival) Cast Sebastian Bieniek, Sven Gerhardt, Frederike Nass Similar movies The Gambler (1997), Staub (2007), Wholetrain (2006), Deutschland Ein Sommermarchen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Gamblers (German: Die Spieler) is a 2007 German no budget film, and the film with the lowest budget (budget: 2000 €/ shooting time: 10 days) that was ever in the competition of an "A" Film Festival.
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The film is based on, but not always loyal to, the novel The Gambler by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, although the film follows more a love story plot than a gambling addiction plot.
Production
The Gamblers was made as a no-budget production in the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB, German Film and Television Academy Berlin) in a seminar taught by Hungarian director Béla Tarr.
It was shot on the Teufelsberg (German for Devil's Mountain), a hill in Berlin that was built from the rubble of Berlin (400,000 buildings) after the Second World War. This is the only location in the film.
Story
In the midst of a world — to an outsider, impenetrable — the house tutor of the deserted General, Alexej Iwanovitsch, once ruled by an uncontrollable addiction to gambling, falls in love with his employer’s stepdaughter Polina. Alexej understands very quickly that he has entered a world ruled by monetary worries and dreams and that, offhand, he is not Polina’s perfect suitor. To him it seems that not only his social position, but also his self-imposed ban from the casino, stand in his way.
Festivals
2007
2008
References
The Gamblers (2007 film) WikipediaThe Gamblers (2007 film) IMDb