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.
Cast
Homayoun Ershadi
as Mr. Badii
Abdolrahman Bagheri
as Mr. Bagheri
Safar Ali Moradi
as Soldier
Mir Hossein Noori
as Seminarian
Elham Imani
as Photographer
Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari
as Worker
Ahmad Ansari
as Self
Reviews
CRCulver
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 t...
