Top Billed Cast
Mahshid Afsharzadeh
Gypsy Woman
Firouz Kiani
Motorcyclist
Samira Makhmalbaf
Mohammadreza Maleki
Jomeh
Esmail Soltanian
Showman
Moharram Zaynalzadeh
Nasim
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A review by CRCulver
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Written by CRCulver on Sat Sep 08 2018
In the aftermath of the Soviet invasion and civil war, hundreds of thousands of Afghans fled across the border with Iran. There they struggled to survive, offering themselves as day labourers at exploitative wages, harassed by officials and just ignored by the bulk of Iranian society. Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 1987 film <i>The Cyclist</i> is an allegory for the Afghan refugee experience,
Nasim (Moharram Zaynalzadeh) must pay the hospital stay of his ailing wife and bring up his son Jomeh (Mohammad Reza Maleki), but even backbreaking labour as a well-digger doesn't pay the bills. When a local busi...
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Keywords
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