The Gambler

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Gambler
Authors and Contributors      By (author) F.M. Dostoevsky
SeriesScreen and Cinema
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:160
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreFilm scripts and screenplays
ISBN/Barcode 9780413728906
ClassificationsDewey:822.914
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Edition New Edition - New ed

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 6 November 1997
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-81) was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. His most famous work includes Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. He is considered to be one of Europe's major novelists.