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: Shukhrat Abbasov
Vladimir Vorobey
Mizha
Vova Kudenko
Seryozha
Bakhtiyar Nabiyev
Rakhim
Natalya Arinbasarova
Saule
Nikolai Timofeyev
Dunajev
Valentina Talyzina
Dodonova, Misha's Mother
Aleksandr Susnin
Stepan Dranov
Raisa Kurkina
Nurse