Life is the only game one does not choose for oneself. The central theme of the film is not only the stories connected to the casino space, gambling and poker players, but also stories from the outside world - the game as a life feeling given to man from birth. Playing in the casino space is the essence of fun and relaxation, but also of the feeling of gambling, it has a kind of mysterious flavour to it. The world 'beyond the walls', the outside world, and therefore politics, is a world of even greater games. Politics influences people's lives, plays with them and, unlike the 'poker' world, often uses unfair means, has no set rules of the game and sometimes even fights against them.
Direction
Sabol blurs casino and parliament into the same suffocating room.
Writing
Life-as-poker metaphor that actually lands the hand.
Director
Ján S. Sabol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Slovakia's actual state-run casinos during a period of political scandal, lending documentary-weight to its fictional corruption.
The poker scenes used real politicians as extras; several were later indicted in unrelated corruption cases.
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