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Taste of Cherry

In remembrance of Homayoun Ershadi ‘Transcendental Appointments’
YEAR
1997
ACCESSIBILITY
HI
FORMAT
35MM
RUNTIME
1h 39m
RATING
NR
DIRECTOR
Abbas Kiarostami
CAST
Homayoun Ershadi

SYNOPSIS

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s TASTE OF CHERRY is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran—searching for someone to rescue or bury him.
LANGUAGE
In Persian with English subtitles

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