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Taste of Cherry( 1997)

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The end of the road.

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.

    Top Billed Cast

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      Homayoun Ershadi

      Mr. Badii

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      Abdolrahman Bagheri

      Mr. Bagheri

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      Safar Ali Moradi

      Soldier

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      Mir Hossein Noori

      Seminarian

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      Elham Imani

      Photographer

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      Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari

      Worker

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      Ahmad Ansari

      Self

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    A review by CRCulver

    5
    Written by CRCulver on Tue Aug 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 is initially mistaken as a homosexual cruising for sex, a misunderstanding that Kiarostami even ribal...

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    Facts

    Status

    Released

    Original Language

    English

    Budget

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    Revenue

    -

    Keywords

    • suicide
    • life and death
    • muslim
    • talking
    • nihilism
    • koran
    • teheran (tehran), iran
    • construction site
    • on the road
    • suicidal thoughts
    • road movie
    • grave digging
    • driving
    • road story
    • hopelessness
    • life challenges
    • self-harm
    • contemplating suicide
    • ideologies
    • religious conversation
    • iranian cinema
    • desperation
    • commit suicide
    • depressed man