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.
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Đơn Dương
Chiến
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Mai
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Thu Quế
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Fairytale for 17-Year-Olds
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Mai's mother (uncredited)
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14 Days, 12 Nights
Mê Cung
Tú Oanh
The student (uncredited)
Also in
Don’t Cry, Butterfly
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Chiều Xuân
The student (uncredited)
Known for
Thi Mai
Thảo Vân
Nữ sinh viên
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Gặp nhau cuối năm
Sao Kim bắn tim sao Hỏa
Lưu Trọng Ninh Director · Nguyễn Thị Hồng Ngát Writer Trọng Đài Composer
First release January 1, 1991 · Produced in Vietnam · Original title Canh Bạc
Production
Vietnam
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Original title
Canh Bạc
Original language
Vietnamese
Spoken on screen
Vietnamese
Release dates
Vietnam · January 1, 1991
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No release date listed for United States.
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