📜 Overview:
In a devastating story rife with visual metaphors, Romanian director Mircea Daneliuc traces the slow mental disintegration of a confirmed gambler, using his disorder as an allusion to a greater national and social disorder. Set in the 1930s, the middle-class gambler meets an elderly man who seems to bring him good luck at the gaming tables. Rather than treasure his friendship and the good fortune it brings, the gambler takes advantage of his friend, and by his actions drives the man to suicide. Unable to reconcile his own mental demons, the gambler wanders through the house of his dead friend, and his experiences there only serve to unsettle his mind more and more and more. In the last reels of the film, the fantasies of the hero's deranged mind take over.
🌏 Languages Available:
Romanian
📆 Date Released:
1982-01-13
⌚ Running Time:
165 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
6.4
Beloved Cast
Ion Teodorescu
Ştefan Iordache
Nina
Tora Vasilescu
Iorgu Ordeanu
Petre Simionescu
Mitică Popescu
Tamara Creţulescu
Camelia Zorlescu
Constantin Drăgănescu
Maria
Rada Istrate
Victor Ionescu
Alexandru Agiu
Ion Fiscuteanu
Constantin Dinulescu
Mihaela Nestorescu
Rodica Moianu
Gheorghe Ghițulescu
Saul Taisler
Nicolae Albani
Paul Lavric
