Taste of Cherry
طعم گيلاس, Ta’m-e gīlāsby Abbas Kiarostami1h391996Iran
Recommended byAgnès Varda, Jonás Trueba, Michael Haneke
The film"s page
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 : Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier, a seminary student and a museum employee, each with reasons to turn down the job : fear, religious scruples and humanist revulsion at a life wilfully squandered.
Credits
- Production Compagny : Ciby 2000, Abbas Kiarostami Productions
- Distributor : MK2
- Photo Director : Homayun Payvar
- Sound Recorder : Jahangir Mirshekari
- Scenario : Abbas Kiarostami
- Director : Abbas Kiarostami
- Producer : Abbas Kiarostami
- Editing : Abbas Kiarostami
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1996
- French release date : 26 November 1997
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : Persian