Movie

Tashkent, City of Bread

★ 5.5/10 · 2 votes 1968 1h 37m Released

Drama

Beautifully shot in black and white, and scripted by Tarkovsky's collaborator Andrei Konchalovsky, this powerful melodrama tells the story of a young boy who undertakes the perilous journey to Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, to earn some money for his hungry family. Filming in the periphery of the Soviet Union, in a time of relative political relaxation, director Shukhrat Abbasov actually dared to depict the poverty and famine that resulted from the Bolshevik Revolution.

Cast

V Vladimir Vorobey Mizha V Vova Kudenko Seryozha B Bakhtiyar Nabiyev Rakhim Natalya Arinbasarova Saule Nikolai Timofeyev Dunajev Valentina Talyzina Dodonova, Misha's Mother