Tashkent, City of Bread

Drama · 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.

Starring

Andrei Konchalovsky, Shukhrat Abbasov, Vladimir Vorobey, Vova Kudenko, Albert Makhalov, Khatam Faiziyev, Khatam Faiziyev, Bakhtiyar Nabiyev, Emonuel Kalantarov, Natalya Arinbasarova

Director

Shukhrat Abbasov