TASTE OF CHERRY

Golden Palm, Cannes 1997

Original language: Farsee

Subtitles: English, Romanian

Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami

Country: Iran

Year of production: 1997

Length: 98 minutes

Genre: drama

A tale of one middle-aged man who wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered as an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters, each with reasons to turn down the job: fear, religious scruples and humanist revulsion at a life willfully squandered.

Credits

Abbas Kiarostami – Director

Abbas Kiarostami – Script

Homayun Payvar – Cinematography

Abbas Kiarostami – Editing

Mohammad Reza Delpak, Jahangir Mirshekari, Erfan Yazdi – Sound

Casting

Ali Moradi

Afshin Bakhtiari

Abdolhossein Bagheri

Homayoun Ershadi

Elham Imani

Mir Hossein Noori

Ahmad Ansari