Luigi Comencini
Director
A Boy from Calabria (1987)
Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who understands his ambitions.
Keywords: mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.running, imdb.runner, imdb.bus-driver, imdb.territory-name-in-title, imdb.training, imdb.nosebleed + 24 more, imdb.human-versus-car, imdb.girl-riding-a-bicycle, imdb.running-alone-at-night, imdb.rifle-shot, imdb.running-race, imdb.barefoot-running, imdb.bruised-face, imdb.violent-father, imdb.calabria-italy, imdb.region-in-title, imdb.start-of-new-school-year, imdb.father-son-conflict, imdb.reference-to-the-battle-of-marathon, imdb.barefoot-boy, imdb.reference-to-rome-1960-summer-olympics, imdb.character-appears-on-tv, imdb.year-1960, imdb.hunter, imdb.limping-man, imdb.reference-to-pheidippides, imdb.rope-making, imdb.education, imdb.reference-to-marathon, imdb.title-spoken-by-character
Production Companies: Italian International Film, U.P. Schermo Video, Carthago Films, Canal+, RAIDolly Cinematografica
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108 min
Sept. 11, 1987
Released
NR / 7+