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Firouz Kiani, Mohammad Reza Maleki, Samira Makhmalbaf

The only thing that stands between Nasim and the deeply damaging personal disgrace of being unable to pay his wife's hospital bills is an insane bet. In this drama, Nasim can find no other honest way ... read more read more...to pay those bills. His job as a well-digger doesn't pay enough, and he won't get into black-market smuggling. In addition to the shame of it, failure to pay the bill could result in his being jailed. Nasim is in despair over his prospects, and is thwarted in a suicide attempt by his son. When a gambler suggests that he could raise the funds by betting that he can ride his bicycle non-stop for seven days straight, Nasim has very little to lose, and gives it all he's got -- and then some. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 15 min.

Directed by: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Release Date: September 9, 1998

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DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005

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  • mvieaddict
    October 27, 2009
    mvieaddict
    I have seen some few Persian movies so far,which were good ones, but this one The Cyclist, I found it an average movie. It was very confusing about a poor Afghani man. whose wife fell sick in Iran and he had no money to pay the hospital bills. To raise money to pay the bills he u... read morendertook an endurance which he will ride a bicycle for 5 days without stopping. Some people placed some bets on his attempt and some tried to sabotage him. I never understood why. It was a movie of a man acting in desperation. Director Makhmalbaf told the story without holding back anything, but most Persian movies does this,and sometimes its captivating.
  • benjaminzapata
    November 29, 2010
    benjaminzapata
    A heartbreaking film about an Afghan refugee in need of money to pay his wife's medical expenses,and the desperate measures he takes to get it.In this case he's swindle into a fantastic plan to stage a bicycle marathon with only one contestant:himself,riding round and round for a... read moren entire week ,night and day,without a break. Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf,one of Iran's greatest filmmakers,The Cyclist is as Jonathan Rosenbaum put it:"A searing expressionist work about man's inhumanity,..." Stunning in its simplicity and shattering all the way up to the conclusion,this film is in the same class as Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief,and Umberto D. The kind of film you don't see everyday,so unique and feeling so real,bold and beautiful!

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