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The Cyclist
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Wikipedia article
'The Cyclist' ( 'Bicycleran') is a 1987 Iranian sports-drama film written and directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, starring Moharram Zaynalzadeh as Abu Ahmed.
Plot
Nasim, a poor Afghan refugee in Pakistan, gives a demonstration in his town's square where he rides his bicycle without stopping for seven days and seven nights, with the aim of raising money for life-saving surgery for his dying wife. In the end, even after seven days, he continues to pedal endlessly, too fatigued to hear his son's and the crowd's pleas to get off his bicycle. One scholar analyses the film as an allegory which parallels the exploitation that Afghan refugees suffer from in Iran and from which they are unable to escape.
Accolades
In 1991 the film won the best narrative film award in the Hawaii International Film Festival.[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000315/1991/1?ref_=ttawd_ev_2 Hawaii International Film Festival (1991) - IMDb]
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