Season 1
S1 · E1 · Oct 6, 1988
Episode 1 Episode 1
S1 · E2 · Oct 13, 1988
Episode 2 Episode 2
S1 · E3 · Oct 20, 1988
Episode 3 Episode 3
S1 · E4 · Oct 27, 1988
Episode 4 Episode 4
S1 · E5 · Nov 3, 1988
Episode 5 Episode 5
S1 · E6 · Nov 10, 1988
Episode 6 Episode 6
S1 · E7 · Nov 17, 1988
Episode 7 Episode 7
S1 · E8 · Nov 24, 1988
Episode 8 Episode 8
8 episodes in Season 1
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.
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Cast
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Nikolai Voloshin
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Andrey Dudarenko
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My Friend Ivan Lapshin
The Cold Summer of 1953
Sergey Nikonenko
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What Men Talk About
Ten Winters
Nina Ruslanova
Known for
Heart of a Dog
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Natalya Sayko
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The Voice
The Testament of Professor Dowell
Aleksei Buldakov
Known for
Peculiarities of the National Fishing
Hitler's Kaput!
Kirill Lavrov
Known for
The Master and Margarita
Petr Shelokhonov
Known for
Anna Karenina
Yuri Votyakov
Also in
Musketeers Twenty Years Later
Inspector Losev
Vladlen Biryukov
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Eternal Call
Young Wife
Nikolay Mikheev
Also in
Freeze, Die, Come to Life
Ermak
Vladimir Bogdanov
Known for
Moloch
Grigori Nikulin Director · Mikhail Alekseyev Writer Yuri Tyurin Writer
Total runtime 9h 52m · Episode length 74 min · Type Miniseries
Show info
Premiered
October 6, 1988
Final episode
November 24, 1988
Status
Ended
Country
Russia
Type
Miniseries
Episode length
74 min
Total runtime
9h 52m
Original language
Russian
Production
Lenfilm
Production
Russia
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Хлеб — имя существительное
Spoken on screen
Russian
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