Bread

(1988)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 170 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1988

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Григорий Никулин

Cast: Николай Волошин, Андрей Дударенко, Сергей Никоненко, Нина Русланова, Наталья Сайко, Алексей Булдаков, Кирилл Лавров, Пётр Шелохонов, Юрий Вотяков, Владлен Бирюков

Plot

Set around the Volga river, the story begins around 1900, when Russian peasants are let free and allowed to own their farmlands. But soon they suffer from losses during the 1917 Russian Revolution and the following Civil War. Then, the major national catastrophe is started by Stalin: his communist government kills millions of farmers and steals all their food supplies, causing the longest and deadliest famine all over central Russia during the 1920s and 1930s.

Khleb - imya sushchestvitelnoe (aka... Bread is the proper noun) is a ten-hour epic about life of three generations in central Russia, based on the eponymous book by Mikhail Alekseev. Set around the Volga river. The story begins around 1900, when Russian peasants are let free and allowed to own their farmlands. But soon they suffer from losses during the 1917 Russian Revolution and the following Civil War. Then, the major national catastrophe is started by Stalin: his communist government kills millions of farmers and steals all their food supplies, causing the longest and deadliest famine all over central Russia during the 1920's and 1930's. The following popular uprising is brutally suppressed by Stalin in the "Great Terror" of 1930s.