The Gamble

Jan 1, 1991

1h 23m

★ 5.3

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Chiến

Đơn Dương

Mai

Thu Hà

Tâm

Kim Xuyến

The Tai old man

Đào Mộng Long

Trọc

Hán Văn Tình

The Tai old man's wife

Thu Quế

Mai's mother (uncredited)

Ngoc Thoa

The student (uncredited)

Tú Oanh

The student (uncredited)

Chiều Xuân

Nữ sinh viên

Thảo Vân

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