Status: Released
Runtime: 97
Release Date: 01/01/1968
Origin Language: ru
Origin Country: SU
Languages: RussianUzbek
Production: Tashkent Studios
Countries: Soviet Union
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
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.