The Runner (1985 film)

For the 1999 crime thriller film, see The Runner (film).

The Runner Davandeh
Directed by	Amir Naderi
Produced by	Ali Reza Zarrin
Written by	Behrouz Gharibpour Amir Naderi
Starring	Abbas Nazeri Majid Niroumand Musa Torkizadeh
Cinematography	Firooz Malekzadeh
Editing by	Bahram Beizai
Country	Iran
Language	Persian

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.

External links

• Davandeh at the Internet Movie Database