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.
Vladimir Vorobey
Vova Kudenko
Bakhtiyar Nabiyev
Natalya Arinbasarova
Nikolai Timofeyev
Valentina Talyzina
Aleksandr Susnin
Raisa Kurkina
Viktor Kolpakov
Yevgeny Gurov
Vakhob Abdullayev
Gani Agzamov
Yura Buchiyev
Stanislav Chekan
Aleksandra Denisova
Nurkhon Ishmukhamedov
Lyubov Kalyuzhnaya
Dzhavlon Khamrayev
Ivan Kosykh
Viktor Kosykh
Khikmat Latypov
Vladimir Lippart
Anatoliy Nikitin
Misha Paramono
Valentin Pechnikov
Zoya Rupasova
M. Shayusupov
Vasiliy Shchelokov
Georgi Svetlani
Vyacheslav Tsaryov
Mikhail Vorobyov
Nikolai Yudin