Taste of Cherry

• 7.6 Drama
• 1997-09-28
• 99 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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)

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

Writer:

Abbas Kiarostami