Tashkent, City of Bread (Ташкент - город хлебный) 56 years old

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.

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Tashkent, City of Bread Cast

Name Character
Natalya Arinbasarova was 21, now 77 years old as Saule
Nikolai Timofeyev He was 46, 77 years old when he died as Dunajev

Tashkent, City of Bread Crew

Name Department
Andrei Konchalovsky as Screenplay. He was 30 (now 86) years old Writing
Tashkent, City of Bread poster
Tashkent, City of Bread (56 years)

  • Release day: Monday, January 01, 1968
  • Runtime: 97 minutes