Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Shukhrat Abbasov Director
- Vladimir Vorobey as Mizha
- Vova Kudenko as Seryozha
- Bakhtiyar Nabiyev as Rakhim
- Natalya Arinbasarova as Saule
- Nikolai Timofeyev as Dunajev
- Valentina Talyzina as Dodonova, Misha's Mother
- Aleksandr Susnin as Stepan Dranov
- Raisa Kurkina as Nurse
- Viktor Kolpakov as Crippled Soldier
- Yevgeny Gurov as Old Man
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