Tashkent, City of Bread
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.
Cast
Vladimir Vorobey
as Mizha
Vova Kudenko
as Seryozha
Bakhtiyar Nabiyev
as Rakhim
Natalya Arinbasarova
as Saule
Nikolai Timofeyev
as Dunajev
Valentina Talyzina
as Dodonova, Misha's Mother
Aleksandr Susnin
as Stepan Dranov
Raisa Kurkina
as Nurse
Viktor Kolpakov
as Crippled Soldier
Yevgeny Gurov
as Old Man
