Overview:
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.Original Title: | طعم گيلاس |
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Status: | Released (1997-09-28) |
Awards: | 3 wins & 5 nominations |
Screen: | Abbas Kiarostami |
Productions: | Kanoon, Abbas Kiarostami Productions, CiBy 2000 |
Production Countries: | France, Iran |
Spoken Languages: | فارسی |
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Casts
- 117528: Homayoun Ershadi - Mr. Badii
- 117529: Abdolrahman Bagheri - Mr. Bagheri
- 117531: Safar Ali Moradi - Soldier
- 117532: Mir Hossein Noori - Seminarian
- 3875705: Elham Imani - Photographer
- 117530: Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari - Worker
- 554586: Ahmad Ansari - Self
Crews
- 119294: Abbas Kiarostami - Director - Directing
- 119294: Abbas Kiarostami - Writer - Writing
- 119294: Abbas Kiarostami - Producer - Production
- 119294: Abbas Kiarostami - Editor - Editing
- 554587: Homayun Payvar - Director of Photography - Camera
- 2387597: Farshad Bashirzadeh - Assistant Camera - Camera
- 1666111: Sasan Bagherpour - Sound Assistant - Sound
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Review text:
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 ....
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