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

1968-01-01

Genres

Drama

Runtime

97 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Shukhrat Abbasov, Andrei Konchalovsky

TMDB rating

5.5/10 from 2 votes