Incredible Bet, or True Event That Ended Happily Hundred Years Ago (1984)
A young student and a rich banker make a bet for two million rubles. On the condition of the wager, the student was to spend 15 years in solitary confinement.
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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
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The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
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The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
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