- Country: Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union
- Genres: Drama
- Release: 1982-12-01
- Director: Aleksey Batalov
- Writers: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Mikhail Olshevsky
- Language: Russian
- Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev , Tatyana Ivanova , Tatyana Ivanova , Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya , Vsevolod Kuznetsov , Jitka Zelenohorská , Vasiliy Livanov , Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy , Aleksandr Zakharov , A. Andreev , Ye. Bakerkina
- Runtime: 100 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: A játékos (Hungary) , The Gambler , Pelurit (Finland) , Играчът на рулетка (Bulgaria) , Ο παίκτης (Greece) , Игрок , Игрок (Russian Federation) , Gracz (Poland) , Hráč , Igrok (France, French Republic) , Igrok
- Plot: The story clearly has dramatic potential, comprising as it does family conflict, romantic troubles and the changing fortunes of the roulette wheel.Certainly the camera work is dramatic with lots of cuts and close ups and the cast and settings are fairly strong.However, I found myself rather unengaged. The telling of the story with repeated flashbacks distances one, as does the muted colour palette and the very 'shouty' scenes of self dramatising and inconsistent characters. The plot has somewhat clichéd elements. Despite this, I found it a little difficult to follow the twists and turns through various non sequiturs and apparent snatches of conversation.Others clearly don't agree from the scores but as this film didn't have a review, I wanted to start the ball rolling.
- IMDB:tt0068729
Igrok Cast · · · ALL
Aleksey Batalov
Director
Nikolay Burlyaev
Tatyana Ivanova
Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya
Vsevolod Kuznetsov
Vasiliy Livanov
Jitka Zelenohorská
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Bozena Obrová
Marie Popelková
Katerina Klumparová
Ludvik Poznik
Fyodor Nikitin
Helena Ruzicková
Fanca Lopatová
Miroslav Hedánek
Radko Choc
Václav Kotva
Vladimir Linka
Jirí Pokora
Kamil Prachar
Gustav Vondracek
Jirí Ruzicka
Oskar Lind
Georgiy Teykh
Pavel Dolgorukov