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Taste of Cherry
IRAN · 1997

Taste of Cherry

Abbas Kiarostami
teheran (tehran), iran life and death koran suicide depression
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Synopsis

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 soo

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I saw Taste of Cherry and Close-Up, and for me it was a very important moment because I realized that the things that I wanted to do in cinema were actually possible to do.
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