Taste of Cherry
You want to give up the taste of cherries?
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.
- 7.7
- 1997
- Released
- 1h 40m
Homayoun Ershadi
Mr. Badii
Abdolrahman Bagheri
Mr. Bagheri
Safar Ali Moradi
Soldier
Mir Hossein Noori
Seminarian
Elham Imani
PhotographerAfshin Khorshid Bakhtiari
WorkerAhmad Ansari
Self
Released
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- #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
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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 over his body the next morning. The first half of the film is essentially about Mr. Badi's difficulties finding