American Bet

The film tells of a love between two young people. The account is set in a small Russian town. The time is the sixties. The daily life of that period is the ground of the account. The narrowness of the town gives the relationship its frame. The air of the period is everywhere in the account. The tie between youth and place is another strand. The distance between the two closes quickly. The account does not leave their side. The film runs drama and romance together. Natalya Danilova and Nina Usatova take the leads, with Viktor Bychkov and Andrey Krasko also in the cast. Alisa Grebenshchikova is in the film as well. Dmitry Meskhiev’s Russian film of 1997 runs ninety one minutes.