Release Date | 1968-01-01 |
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Runtime | 97 minutes |
Genres | Drama |
Stars | Vladimir Vorobey, Vova Kudenko, Bakhtiyar Nabiyev, Natalya Arinbasarova, Nikolai Timofeyev |
Directors | Shukhrat Abbasov, Andrei Konchalovsky, Albert Makhalov, Emonuel Kalantarov, Khatam Faiziyev |
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.