Katala
Sign in to saveKatala (, also known as The Gambler) is a 1989 Soviet crime film directed by Sergei Bodrov and Alexander Buravsky.
Film · TMDB
5.7The story of a player who entered the environment of professional gamblers in the hope of breaking a big jackpot.
Released: 1989-01-0580 minDir: Sergei BodrovCrime, Romance
Cast
- Valeriy Garkalin as Alexey Grekov, nicknamed "Greek"
- Elena Safonova as Anna
- Nodar Mgaloblishvili as Director
- Viktor Pavlov as Crucian
- Luiza Mosendz as Lola
- Yuri Slobodenyuk
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.
Key dates
- Published
- 28 October 1989
via Wikidata · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- romance film
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Original language
- Russian
- Director
- Sergei Bodrov
- Cast member
- Victor Pavlov
- Composer
- Vladimir Dashkevich
- Production company
- Mosfilm
- Duration
- +76
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
5 sectionsContents
- Plot
- Cast
- Production
- References
- External links
Katala (, also known as The Gambler) is a 1989 Soviet crime film directed by Sergei Bodrov and Alexander Buravsky.
==Plot== In a small seaside town lives Aleksei 'The Greek' Grekov, a former katala, a slang term in the criminal circles meaning professional gambler. He is retired and now serves as a sailor on a pleasure boat of the semi-criminal businessman named Shota. Life goes on smoothly, but suddenly a terrible event occurs. Shota, having lost a lot of money to the criminal boss named "Director", tries to hide, the boat is burned right in the port, and Anna, Shota's girlfriend, is taken hostage by the bandits. Despite various efforts Shota falls into the hands of the criminals and they brutally kill him, but The Greek helps Anna and her young daughter escape to Moscow. Aleksei understands that while the Director does not receive all the debts of late Shota, he will go after Anna. And so The Greek who is in love with Anna decides to return to his former "craft" in order to "earn" money with a card game in order to save Anna.