Taste of Cherry

1997 • 1h 39m •

Drama

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A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him after his demise. Driving around the city, the seemingly well-to-do Badii meets with numerous people, including a Muslim student, asking them to take on the job, but initially he has little luck. Eventually, Badii finds a man who is up for the task because he needs the money, but his new associate soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.

Top Billed Cast

Homayoun Ershadi

Mr. Badii

Abdolrahman Bagheri

Mr. Bagheri

Safar Ali Moradi

Soldier

Mir Hossein Noori

Seminarian

Elham Imani

Photographer

Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari

Worker

Ahmad Ansari

Self

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In Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 film Ta'm-e gilas (Taste of Cherry) one Mr. Badi, a man about whom viewers learn virtually nothing, drives around Tehran looking for someone to do him a favour: that night, he will kill himself in a quarry outside the city, and he wants someone to cast dirt over his body the next morning.

The first half of the film is essentially about Mr. Badi's difficulties finding someone to carry out this small task, in spite of the substantial amount of money he's offering. He is initially mistaken as a homosexual cruising for sex, a misunderstanding that Kiarostami even riba...