Five drunks bet they can name something that isn't in the room. Chaos ensues.
Gambling in "Vint." Strange and yet captivating with its unexpected twist, which was started one dreary autumn night by the officials Andrei Stepanovich Peresolin, Serafim Zvizdulin, Stepan Kulakevich, Yeremey Nedoyekhov, and Ivan Pisulin.
Acting
Five actors perfectly capture escalating drunken desperation
Writing
Gogol-esque spiral into philosophical madness
Director
Vladimir Tretyakov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare surviving short from Lenfilm's experimental period, often screened alongside Tarkovsky student films.
The entire film was shot in a single 6-hour session with real alcohol on set—method acting Soviet style.
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