Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro have made many films together. But very few of them come close to the size, fascination and severity that Casino unfolds. Together with Joe Pesci, the gangster film itself is celebrated here and the result is a three-hour masterpiece. But you don’t feel the length at all, it feels more like three minutes. Tonight the film will even be on TV without any advertising.
Today on TV: What is Casino about?
About all or nothing, about the really big issues and the fine print: Casino tells it The rise and fall of Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro), Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) and Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone). We experience Las Vegas in the 1970s in the stranglehold of organized crime. The whole thing is also based on an incredible but true story.
Ace Rothstein was actually just a very talented gambler. However, he then became sent to Las Vegas by the mafiato run the Tangiers Casino himself. At his side is the unscrupulous and brutal mafioso Nicky Santoro, who doesn’t hesitate for long. Meanwhile, Ace Rothstein also falls in love with Ginger, a former sex worker with a drug problem. But the success doesn’t last long, because soon the tide turns and half the city almost sinks into chaos.
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Robert De Niro plays one of his best and most legendary roles in Casino.
Casino is one of the best mafia films of all time and is based on true events
If you’ve always wanted to know how a casino actually works, you’ve come to the right place with the film of the same name. But you also get your money’s worth if you a completely unleashed Joe Pesci want to see him, for example, stab someone with a pen out of the blue. Or if you’re looking forward to one of the best Sharon Stone performances ever. As hard as it may sound, casino is entertaining and exciting.
We owe this not only to Martin Scorsese and the fantastic cast, but above all to one person real history as only life can write it. The general events and thus the entire background story of Casino really happened like that. The film is based on Nicholas Pileggi’s book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas. The real-life models for the film characters were Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal and Anthony “The Ant” Spilotro.
TV or stream: When and where is the casino running?
Casino is coming tonight Saturday, February 10, 2024, to Sunday, in the first at 1:20 a.m. It then runs there without commercial breaks until 4:05 a.m.
If you’d rather not spend the night wasting your time, you don’t have to be sad: Casino is also available to rent or buy online on Apple TV, Magenta TV, Google Play and Maxdome.
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