Tashkent, City of Bread (1968)

Director
Shukhrat Abbasov

Main cast
Vladimir Vorobey; Vova Kudenko; Bakhtiyar Nabiyev; Natalya Arinbasarova; Nikolai Timofeyev

Genres
Drama

Description
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.


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