Tashkent, City of Bread

(1968)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1968

Runtime: 97 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Shukhrat Abbasov

Cast: Vladimir Vorobey, Vova Kudenko, Bakhtiyar Nabiyev, Наталия Аринбасарова, Николай Тимофеев, Валентина Талызина, Александр Суснин, Раиса Куркина, Виктор Колпаков, Евгений Гуров

Plot

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.