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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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