Sep 28, 1997
99 min
Full-HD

Taste of Cherry (1997)

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.

Category

Drama

Country

France Iran

Companies

Kanoon Abbas Kiarostami Productions CiBy 2000

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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