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The Runner is a iranien film of genre Drama directed by Amir Naderi

The Runner (1984)

The Runner
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Length 2h
Directed by
OriginIran
Genres Drama,    Comedy-drama
Rating75% 3.792833.792833.792833.792833.79283

The Runner (Persian: Davandeh دونده ) is a 1985 film by Amir Naderi, one of the major directors of Iranian cinema before and after the Iranian Revolution.

The Runner was perhaps the first of the post-revolution Iranian films to attract worldwide attention. It set the tone for many of the films which followed: realism, child's eye 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.

Synopsis

Amiro est un jeune orphelin qui grandit dans la ville pétrolière iranienne d'Abadan. Pour survivre, il travaille, et multiplie les petits métiers. Avec d'autres enfants des rues, il court, après des trains, dans la ville. Lui aime aussi appeler au loin les bateaux, en les suppliant de le prendre à bord, et les avions qui s'envolent. Amiro se rend compte que pour parvenir à exaucer ses rêves, il faut qu'il aille à l'école.

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