Film
Tashkent, City of Bread (1967)
- Year
- 1967
- Directed by
- Shuhrat Abbosov
- Starring
- Javlon Hamroyev, Hikmat Latipov, Gani Azamov
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Tashkent, City of Bread is a black-and-white drama from Uzbekfilm, directed by Shukhrat Abbasov and based on Aleksandr Neverov's novella of the same name. The script is by Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky. During the 1921 Volga famine a boy, Misha Dodonov, sets out for Tashkent, said to have plenty of bread, to save his mother and younger brothers. Vladimir Vorobey plays the lead. At the All-Union Film Festival in Alma-Ata the film won prizes for direction, visual design and as best film for children and youth.
