TASTE OF CHERRY
Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest
TASTE OF CHERRY
Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest
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
