The Runner (1984)
1h 34m
Running Time
December 20, 1984Release Date
Plot.
A young orphan named Amiro lives alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan. He survives by shining shoes, selling water, and collecting deposit bottles. Although he sometimes finds himself at odds with both adults and competing older kids, he finds solace in dreams about departing cargo ships and airplanes—and by running.
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Cast & Crew.
Majid Niroumand
Amiro
Abbas Nazeri
Actor
Musa Torkizadeh
Actor
Amir Naderi
Director
Behrouz Gharibpour
Writer
Behrouz arg
Writer
Ali Reza Zarrin
Producer
Firooz Malekzadeh
Cinematographer
Nezamoddin Kiaie
Sound
Bahram Beyzai
Editor
Mohammad Hassanzadeh
ProductionDesigner
Alireza Gholmzade
Ali Pasdarzade
Shirzad Bashkal
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The Runner (Persian: دونده, Davandeh) is a 1984 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 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 has been celebrated for presenting an authentic image of the encounter with modernity in Iranian cinema.