Story
Amiro, a 13-year old war orphan, is fighting for survival in an Iranian port. He searches scrapyards for things to sell, collects empty bottles and sells iced water. What little he earns he spends on old magazines with aircraft on the cover. He can only look at them and dream, for he has never learned to read. It becomes increasingly clear that his life will only change if he learns to read and write. The Runner was the first Iranian film to be seen abroad after the Islamic revolution, and shows with remarkable candour the old opposites of rich and poor in the new Islamic state.
Director
Amir Naderi (*1946) was an important director of post-revolutionary Iranian cinema which profited greatly from the international success of The Runner. In 1986 he emigrated to the USA. His last film Cut (2011) was made entirely in Japanese.Info
Davandeh
Fiction Feature
Persian
Iran Deluxe | FF2013
Iran
1985
94 min
OV with English subtitles
Amir Naderi
Amir Naderi, Behrouz Gharibpour
Abbas Nazeri, Majid Niroumand, Moussa Torki-Zadeh
Ali Reza Zarrin
Firouz Malekzadeh
Bahram Beyzaïi
Amir Naderi
Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young adults (Kanoon)