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Taste of Cherry

Taste of Cherry

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1997

Release Year

99 min

Runtime

Drama

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.

Keywords

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

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CRCulver

August 14, 2018

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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

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