Taste of Cherry(Movie, 1997)

Name: Taste of Cherry
Genre: Drama
Released: 1997
Duration: T01:39:00
Rating: 3.8

Original title: "طعم گيلاس" (Persian/FA)

1h 39min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 3.8/5 (with 242 votes)

Taste of Cherry (Persian: طعم گیلاس..., Ta’m-e gīlās...) is a 1997 Iranian minimalist drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and starring Homayoun Ershadi as a middle-aged Tehran man, who drives through a city suburb, in search of someone willing to carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, which it shared with The Eel. ()

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Awards & Nominations for Taste of Cherry

Palme d'Or

About Taste of Cherry

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.

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Additional Information

Production countries: France, Iran

Shot in: Tehran

Plays in: Tehran

Made by: Kanoon, Abbas Kiarostami Productions

Original language: Persian (FA)

Spoken languages: Persian (FA)

Translated into 24 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 09/28/1997

Cast: Homayoun Ershadi

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Producer: Abbas Kiarostami

Screenwriter: Abbas Kiarostami

Film Editor: Abbas Kiarostami

Director of Photography: Homayoun Payvar

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Ta'm-e gilās"

"Le Goût de la cerise"

"Ta'm e guilass"

"Ta'me Gilas"

"Tame Gilas"

"체리향기"

"Smaken av kirsebær"

Keywords: gay theme, muslim, gay interest, iranian new wave, teheran (tehran), iran, driving, suicide

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