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Taste of Cherry (1997)

Name: Taste of Cherry
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Genre: drama film, road movie
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 7.7

Taste of Cherry 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.

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami · Shot by Homayoun Payvar · Cut by Abbas Kiarostami · 95 min

Behind the scenes

'Taste of Cherry' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times — The New York Times · 3 min

Elsewhere

More by Abbas Kiarostami

The Bread and Alley — 1970
Breaktime — 1972
The Experience — 1973
The Traveller — 1974
So Can I — 1975
Two Solutions for One Problem — 1975
Rang-ha — 1976
A Wedding Suit — 1976
How to Make Use of Leisure Time: Painting — 1977
Tribute to the Teachers — 1977
The Report — 1977
Jahan Nama Palace — 1977
Solution — 1978
First Case, Second Case — 1979
Toothache — 1980
Orderly or Disorderly — 1981
The Chorus — 1982
Fellow Citizen — 1983
First Graders — 1984
Where is the Friend's Home? — 1987
Homework — 1989
Close-Up — 1990
Life, and Nothing More... — 1992
Through the Olive Trees — 1994
Lumière and Company — 1995
À propos de Nice, la suite — 1995
Birth of Light — 1997
The Wind Will Carry Us — 1999
ABC Africa — 2001
Ten — 2002

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