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.

• Uzbekfilm
• Vladimir Vorobey
• Vova Kudenko
• Bakhtiyar Nabiyev
• Natalya Arinbasarova
• Nikolai Timofeyev
• Valentina Talyzina
• Aleksandr Susnin
• Raisa Kurkina