The Runner (1984)

Original title

دونده

Directed by

Amir Naderi

Genre

drama film

Country

Iran

Runtime

1h 34m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young boy living in a poor neighborhood near an airport runs and works to survive. His life revolves around simple tasks and dreams he pursues with determination.

gentlerealisticinnocentnostalgicslow-burnauthenticpoignantvisually stark

What happens

The Runner (Persian: ...دونده, Davandeh...) is a 1984 Iranian film by Amir Naderi. The Runner was one of the first post-revolutionary Iranian films screened and celebrated internationally. Inspired by director Amir Naderi’s own boyhood, it sets the tone for many of the films that followed: realism, children's perspective of the world, innocence, gentleness, set in poor neighbourhoods, exposing great disparities in wealth, resting much of the film on the shoulders of one young actor, using children's lives as analogies for, or explicit expositions of, the problems of the adult world. The film is critically acclaimed for presenting an authentic image of the encounter with modernity in Iranian cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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