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28/09/1997 Drama 1h 39m
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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.

  1. Abbas Kiarostami

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Homayoun Ershadi

    Mr. Badii

  2. Abdolrahman Bagheri

    Mr. Bagheri

  3. Safar Ali Moradi

    Soldier

  4. Mir Hossein Noori

    Seminarian

  5. Elham Imani

    Photographer

  6. Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari

    Worker

  7. Ahmad Ansari

    Self

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Reviews

A review by CRCulver
Written by CRCulver on 2018-08-14
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 riba...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Persian

Budget
$120,000.00

Revenue
$10,923.00

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