Bread
Release Date: 1988-10-06
Rating : 5.875/10
Duration : 588 minutes
Genres : Drama, History, TV Movie
Director : Grigori Nikulin
Writer : Grigori Nikulin, Yuri Tyurin, Mikhail Alekseyev
Set around the Volga river, the story begins around 1900, when Russian peasants are let free and allowed to own their farmlands. But soon they suffer from losses during the 1917 Russian Revolution and the following Civil War. Then, the major national catastrophe is started by Stalin: his communist government kills millions of farmers and steals all their food supplies, causing the longest and deadliest famine all over central Russia during the 1920s and 1930s.
Cast
Nikolai Voloshin
Andrey Dudarenko
Sergey Nikonenko
Nina Ruslanova
Natalya Sayko
Aleksei Buldakov