Tashkent, City of Bread (1968)

Tashkent, City of Bread (1968) - Drama Movies 97 minutes. Brot aus Taschkent, Egy falat kenyér, Taszkient, miasto chleba, Toshkent - non shahri. 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. refugee train