Tashkent, City of Bread

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.

Director: Shukhrat Abbasov

Cast

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Vladimir Vorobey

Mizha

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Vova Kudenko

Seryozha

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Bakhtiyar Nabiyev

Rakhim

Natalya Arinbasarova

Saule

Nikolai Timofeyev

Dunajev

Valentina Talyzina

Dodonova, Misha's Mother

Aleksandr Susnin

Stepan Dranov

Raisa Kurkina

Nurse

Viktor Kolpakov

Crippled Soldier

Yevgeny Gurov

Old Man