Taste of Cherry (1997)
September 28, 1997
Drama
1h 39m


The end of the road.
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.
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Cast & Crew
- Director
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Mr. Badii Homayoun Ershadi
- Mr. Bagheri Abdolrahman Bagheri
- Soldier Safar Ali Moradi
- Seminarian Mir Hossein Noori
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Keywords
- suicide
- life and death
- muslim
- talking
- nihilism
- koran
- teheran (tehran), iran
- construction site
- suicidal thoughts
- grave digging
- driving
- hopelessness
- life challenges
- self-harm
- contemplating suicide
- ideologies
- religious conversation
- iranian cinema
- desperation
- commit suicide
- depressed man