Tashkent, City of Bread

Jan 1, 1968

1h 37m

★ 2.0

Overview

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

Production Companies

Uzbekfilm

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Cast

Mizha

Vladimir Vorobey

Seryozha

Vova Kudenko

Rakhim

Bakhtiyar Nabiyev

Saule

Natalya Arinbasarova

Dunajev

Nikolai Timofeyev

Dodonova, Misha's Mother

Valentina Talyzina

Stepan Dranov

Aleksandr Susnin

Nurse

Raisa Kurkina

Crippled Soldier

Viktor Kolpakov

Old Man

Yevgeny Gurov

Policeman

Vakhob Abdullayev

Gani Agzamov

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