Completed in October 1929, "Khlib" (Bread) was released in March 1930, in Soviet Ukraine. After 7 March 1930, the film was censored as politically incorrect and soon banned for screening, it was never released in other republics of Soviet Union. Then under the new title "Tysyacha devyatsot dvadtsyatyy rik" (The Year Nineteen Twenty), the film was re-edited to follow the line of Soviet censors, but this version was finally banned on 13 February 1931 and never released.
The original length of the film was 1014 meters; the 2013 restoration is 1030.2 meters in length.