Tashkent, City of Bread (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.

Released Jan. 1, 1968 97 min None+

Genres: Drama

Keywords: tmdb.refugee-train, imdb.place-name-in-title, aspectratio.2-35-1

Production Companies: Uzbekfilm

Country: Soviet Union
Languages: Russian, Uzbek