Tashkent, City of Bread (1968)

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.

Genres: Drama

Stars: Vladimir Vorobey, Vova Kudenko, Bakhtiyar Nabiyev, Natalya Arinbasarova, Nikolai Timofeyev

Release Date: 1968-01-01

Country: Soviet Union

Ratings: 2 / 10 (1 votes)

Runtime: 97 mins