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
as Mizha
Vova Kudenko
as Seryozha
Bakhtiyar Nabiyev
as Rakhim
Наталия Аринбасарова
as Saule
Николай Тимофеев
as Dunajev
Вячеслав Царёв
as Crook
