Tashkent, City of Bread (1968)

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.

Release Date : Jan 01, 1968

Runtime : 1h 37m

Genre : Drama  

Companies : Tashkent Studios

Countries : Soviet Union

Keywords : refugee train