

Taste of Cherry
Do you want to give up the taste of cherries?
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 soon tries to talk him out of committing suicide.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $120K
- Box office
- $10.9K
- Language
- Persian
- depression
- suicide
- life and death
- nihilism
- koran
- melancholy
- conversation
- teheran (tehran), iran
- religion
- construction site
- iran
- suicidal thoughts
Top billed cast
Behind the camera
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNew York Film Festival28 Sept 1997
- PremiereHawaii Film Festival10 Nov 1997
- TheatricalNRNew York City, New York20 Mar 1998
- PremiereWashington DC International Film Festival27 Apr 1999
- PremiereSeattle International Film Festival10 Jun 2017
- Theatrical (limited)IFC Center (4K Restoration)27 Jul 2019
- PremiereSeattle International Film Festival20 Sept 2019
- Theatrical (limited)Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Digitally Restored Version)1 Nov 2019
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival28 Jul 2003
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1226 Dec 1997
- PremiereSão Paulo International Film Festival1 Oct 2004
- Theatrical (limited)IMS Paulista ("Abbas Kiarostami em Retrospectiva" - 4K Restoration)2 Oct 2026
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical (limited)Projekt 10022 Jan 1998
FinlandFI
- TheatricalS27 Oct 2000
- PremiereMidnight Sun Film Festival15 Jun 2007
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival16 May 1997
- TheatricalTP26 Nov 1997
- PhysicalTPDVD7 Mar 2007
- Digital / OTTVOD1 Jan 2019
- PhysicalTPBlu-Ray7 Jul 2020
- TheatricalTPRe-Release2 Jun 2021
- Theatrical (limited)Centre Pompidou (Restored Version)6 Jun 2021
GreeceGR
- PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival1 Nov 1997
- PremiereThessaloniki International Film Festival19 Nov 2004
- TheatricalRe-Release28 Aug 2025
IndonesiaID
- PremiereJakarta International Film Festival12 Nov 2000
- Theatrical (limited)Special Screening 6 Dec 2025
IranIR
- PremiereFajr Film Festival1 Feb 1998
- Theatrical30 Apr 1999
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT10 Oct 1997
NetherlandsNL
- PremiereInternational Film Festival Rotterdam1 Feb 1998
- Theatrical629 Oct 1998
- TV6Nederland 325 Feb 2006
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical121 Jan 1998
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Taste of Cherry was released on 10 October 1997.
Audience reviews
1- C5/10
CRCulver
8/14/2018
In Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 film Ta'm-e gilas (Taste of Cherry) one Mr. Badi, a man about whom viewers learn virtually nothing, drives around Tehran looking for someone to do him a favour: that night, he will kill himself in a quarry outside the city, and he wants someone to cast dirt over his body the next morning. The first half of the film is essentially about Mr. Badi's difficulties finding someone to carry out…
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