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Taste of Cherry

1997 · 99 min · Director: Abbas Kiarostami ★ IMDb 7.7 · 45,447 ratings

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Middle-aged Mr.Badii is planning to commit suicide and desperately seeks anyone to assist him - he has already dug out the grave in the mountains, but the assistant will have to bury him when he will do the deed. He asks Kurd soldier, Afghan seminarian, but everyone refuses by some reason. Finally he finds an old Turkish taxidermist, who has a sick son and previously attempted suicide himself, and he agrees to assist Badii.

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Taste of Cherry (1997) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Melancholy 35%, Empathy 25%, Anxiety 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

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The strongest emotional signals are Melancholy, Empathy, Anxiety. Genres: Drama. AI estimate.

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Cast

AB
Abdolhosein Bagheri

AB
Abdolrahman Bagheri

Mr. Bagheri

AK
Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari

SA
Safar Ali Moradi

Soldier

MH
Mir Hossein Noori

Seminarian

EI
Elham Imani

Photographer

AA
Ahmad Ansari

Self

AK
Abbas Kiarostami

Self (uncredited)

Details

Directed by
Abbas Kiarostami
Written by
Abbas Kiarostami
Type
Movies
Released
1997
Runtime
99 min
Country
Iran, France
Genres
Drama
Ratings
★ IMDb 7.7 · 45,447 ratings
Feels mostly
Melancholy
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