Tashkent, City of Bread

Overview
Cast & Crew
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The Plot

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.

Run Time

1h 37m

Genre

Drama

Release Date

01 Jan 1968

Country

Soviet Union

Language

Russian, Uzbek

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