Movielogr
Tashkent, City of Bread (1968)
Directed by Shukhrat Abbasov
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.
Length 97 minutes
Actors
Vladimir Vorobey | Vova Kudenko | Bakhtiyar Nabiyev | Natalya Arinbasarova | Nikolai Timofeyev | Vyacheslav Tsaryov