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.
- Release Date: 1968-01-01
- Runtime: 1h 37min
- Production Company: Uzbekfilm
- Production Country: Soviet Union
- Director: Shukhrat Abbasov
- Writer: Andrei Konchalovsky
