The Gamble

The Gamble

1991 · 83 min · ★ 5.3 · Drama

Don Duong stars as a truck driver who falls in love with a young student girl in a roadside border canteen. Unsure about him, she returns to school but finally decides to throw in her lot with him. This decision forms the gambling motif in the film, a decision which causes her grief, when she later becomes the subject of his gamble.

Directed by Lưu Trọng Ninh · Written by Nguyễn Thị Hồng Ngát

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