Tashkent, City of Bread

• Movies
• 1968-01-01
• RU
• Released
• 2h 37m
• SU
• Drama

• 2.0
• 1

Production

Uzbekfilm

Storyline

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.