This lavish Soviet/Czech co-production is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's famous novel, The Gambler, which tells the story of a Russian living in Germany, in a gambling resort. This film is set at the turn of the century, and was filmed in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czechoslovakia. Played by Nikolai Burlyayev, the gambler succumbs completely to his addiction, using up every resource he has (human, spiritual and financial) in his wagering, finally becoming a rootless drifter.
Nikolay Burlyaev
Tatyana Ivanova
Lyubov Dobrzhanskaya
Vsevolod Kuznetsov
Vasiliy Livanov
Jitka Zelenohorská
Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Božena Obrová
Marie Popelková
Kateřina Klumparová
Růžena Smolíková
Ludvík Pozník
Fyodor Nikitin
Helena Růžičková
Walter Steiner
Františka Horáková
Miroslav Hedánek
Radko Choc
Václav Kotva
Josef Lébr
Vladimír Linka
Lubomír Pavelek
Jiří Pokora
Jaroslav Pospíšil
Kamil Prachař
Gustav Vondráček
Jiří Růžička
Jaroslav Soukup
Františka Drtílková-Balounová
Erich Bříza
Lydie Cillerová
Vladimír Dubský
Milan Galis
Jan Gall
Alexandr Harant
František Harant
Jaromír Havlík
Václav Hoppe
Karel Keller
Rudolf Kroupa
Josef Matzke
Václav Nový
František Osvald
Petr Petřík
Karel Sedlák
Jana Sedláková
Petr Skalka
Jaroslav Sochůrek
Josef Staněk
František Tůma
Václav Volín
Jaroslav Zíma
Oskar Lind
Georgiy Teykh
Kirill Gun
Pavel Dolgorukov
Ye. Bakerkina
A. Kozlov
Svetlana Mazovetskaya
Inna Kondrateva
Anatoliy Shvederskiy