Not RatedTaste of Cherry

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Play Time: 99 mins
Drama
Taste of Cherry

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
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
Taste of Cherry
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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 ....

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