Tashkent City of Bread

Beautifully shot in black and white and scripted by Tarkovskys collaborator Andrei Konchalovsky this powerful melodrama tells the story of a young boy who undertakes the perilous journey to Uzbekistans 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