It wasn't the game itself that captured my interests. It was the gamblers. The jovial kind...
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Fedja:
[voice over]
It wasn't the game itself that captured my interests. It was the gamblers. The jovial kind with his confident cigar. The nervous one with the desperate cigarette, haunting the tables like a ghost in a graveyard where his luck lies buried. The money lenders, tireless little vultures, eyeing their prey with anticipation., driving their cut-throat bargains. And then those who have seen everything a thousand times before, the casino officials, aloof, indifferently watching their aging cavalier with his young Madamoiselle, a monocle and a décolleté, a banknote and a kiss. What is it, I ask myself, that makes these people so absorbed in this senseless game? I felt their fever in my own pulse. But, what caused it was a mystery to me. I couldn't resist the experiment
[voice over]
It wasn't the game itself that captured my interests. It was the gamblers. The jovial kind with his confident cigar. The nervous one with the desperate cigarette, haunting the tables like a ghost in a graveyard where his luck lies buried. The money lenders, tireless little vultures, eyeing their prey with anticipation., driving their cut-throat bargains. And then those who have seen everything a thousand times before, the casino officials, aloof, indifferently watching their aging cavalier with his young Madamoiselle, a monocle and a décolleté, a banknote and a kiss. What is it, I ask myself, that makes these people so absorbed in this senseless game? I felt their fever in my own pulse. But, what caused it was a mystery to me. I couldn't resist the experiment
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A religious medal The image of the Redeemer
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Pawned and rescued by sinners
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I had to write about this unholy place
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where Christ had been forgotten in a pawnshop
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and the Devil thrived in a casino
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I started to realize that gambling was much more than winning and losing money
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What is at stake is always the soul
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Movie Summary
A young writer goes to Wiesbaden to write about gambling and gamblers, only to ultimately become a compulsive gambler himself. Losing all his wealth, as well as his moral fibre, he commits the ultimate degradation of robbing a church
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Fedja
