Taste of Cherry
طعم گيلاس
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.
- Budget
- $120,000
- Revenue
- $10,923
- Production
- Kanoon, Kiarostami Foundation, CiBy 2000
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Writers
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Producers
- Abbas Kiarostami,Alain Depardieu
- Cinematography
- Homayun Payvar
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CRCulver
August 14, 2018
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 …