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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Natalya ArinbasarovaSaule
Nikolai TimofeyevDunajev
Valentina TalyzinaDodonova, Misha's Mother
Aleksandr SusninStepan Dranov
Raisa KurkinaNurse
Viktor KolpakovCrippled Soldier
Yevgeny GurovOld Man
Vakhob AbdullayevPolicemanExplore the crew
- Screenplay
- Andrei Konchalovsky
- Director
- Shukhrat Abbasov
- Director of Photography
- Khatam Faiziyev
- Original Music Composer
- Albert Malakhov
- Editor
- M. Makarova
- Producer
- Yu. Ganiev