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.

• Andrei KonchalovskyScreenplay
• Shukhrat AbbasovDirector
• Albert MalakhovOriginal Music Composer

• Vladimir VorobeyMizha
• Vova KudenkoSeryozha
• Bakhtiyar NabiyevRakhim
• Natalya ArinbasarovaSaule
• Nikolai TimofeyevDunajev
• Valentina TalyzinaDodonova, Misha's Mother
• Aleksandr SusninStepan Dranov
• Raisa KurkinaNurse
• Viktor KolpakovCrippled Soldier
• Yevgeny GurovOld Man
• Vakhob AbdullayevPoliceman
• Gani AgzamovCast