Edward Norton Academy Award for Best Actor. Later, Norton starred with Matt Damon in "Rounders", which follows two friends who urgently need to earn enough cash playing poker to pay off a huge debt. In David Fincher's 1999 film "Fight Club", Norton played an unreliable narrator who feels trapped in his white-collar position. It is based on Chuck Palahniuk's novel of the same name. To prepare for the role, Norton took lessons in boxing, taekwondo and grappling. "Fight Club" premiered at the 1999 Venice International Film Festival. During promotion for the film, he said, "I feel that "Fight Club" really, in a
The House of the Dead (novel) than their real-life counterparts. "The House of the Dead" was Dostoevsky’s only work that Leo Tolstoy revered. In 1927–1928, Leoš Janáček wrote an operatic version of the novel, with the title "From the House of the Dead". It was his last opera. In 1932, the novel was adapted to a film, directed by Vasili Fyodorov and starring Nikolay Khmelyov. The House of the Dead (novel) The House of the Dead (, "Zapiski iz Myortvogo doma") is a semi-autobiographical novel published in 1860–2 in the journal "Vremya" by Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky, which portrays the life of convicts in a Siberian