Tashkent, City of Bread

Story Line

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.

Top Cast

Vladimir Vorobey

Mizha

Vova Kudenko

Seryozha

Bakhtiyar Nabiyev

Rakhim

Natalya Arinbasarova

Saule

Nikolai Timofeyev

Dunajev

Valentina Talyzina

Dodonova, Misha's Mother