
Taste of Cherry
- Drama
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.
- Directed by
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Written by
- Abbas Kiarostami
Cast
- Homayoun Ershadi
- Abdolrahman Bagheri
- Safar Ali Moradi
- Mir Hossein Noori
- Elham Imani
- Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari
- Ahmad Ansari
- Abbas Kiarostami
Keywords
- hopeful
- philosophical
- nostalgic
- ambiguous
- religion
- nihilism
- road movie
- melancholy
- suicide
- questioning
- life and death
- depression
- meditative
- hopelessness
- grave digging
- driving
- suicidal thoughts
- contemplating suicide
- iran
- life challenges
- depressed man
- teheran (tehran), iran
- koran
- conversation
- construction site
- ideologies
- religious conversation
- iranian cinema
- existencialism
- contemplative
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