Top billed cast

1. 

   Anton Walbrook

   Capt. Herman Suvorin

2. 

   Edith Evans

   The Old Countess Ranevskaya

3. 

   Yvonne Mitchell

   Lizavetta Ivanova

4. 

   Ronald Howard

   Andrei

5. 

   Mary Jerrold

   Old Varvarushka

6. 

   Anthony Dawson

   Fyodor

7. 

   Miles Malleson

   Tchybukin

8. 

   Michael Medwin

   Hovaisky

9. 

   Athene Seyler

   Princess Ivashin

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-01-01

This certainly has the feel of a short story to it. It takes it's time getting there, but the denouement is surprisingly effective. It all centres on the increasingly obsessive captain of engineers "Herman" (Anton Walbrook) who spends most of his cold and snowy St. Petersburg evenings with his aristocratic friends as they play faro. He never joins in, but that is because he has learned that the grandmother of one of his friends supposedly sold her soul to the devil in return for a secret that made her invincible at the card table. Determined to discover this secret, he befriends her confident ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• gambling
• supernatural
• black and white
• devil
• card playing