The Runner (1984)
1h 34m
Running Time
December 20, 1984Release Date
The Runner (1984)
1h 34m
Running Time
December 20, 1984Release Date
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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

Musa Torkizadeh

Abbas Nazeri

Alireza Gholmzade

Ali Pasdarzade

Shirzad Bashkal

Firooz Malekzadeh
Director of Photography

Amir Naderi
Director / Writer

Behrouz Gharibpour
Writer

Nezamoddin Kiaie
Sound

Mohammad Hassanzadeh
Art Direction

Ali Reza Zarrin
Producer

Bahram Beyzai
Editor
Media.











Details.
Release DateDecember 20, 1984
Original Nameدونده
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
orphan
iran
childhood
port city
farsi
Wiki.
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.
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