Taste of Cherry

Name: Taste of Cherry
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Released: 1997
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Homayoun Ershadi, Abdolhosein Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari, Safar Ali Moradi, Mir Hossein Noori

1997 · 99 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 39,397 VOTES · DIR. Abbas Kiarostami

Overview

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.

Dialogue Timeline — 798 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:49 Labourers? Looking for labourers?

00:08:42 - How are you? - Fine, thanks.

00:10:52 Safar Ali MORADl

00:13:18 How long ago were you drafted?

00:15:37 Six p.m.

00:17:58 Why? Don't you count with your friends at the barracks?

00:20:16 Ever been a labourer?

00:23:43 Trouble, what trouble? I don't want it. It's late...

00:26:22 Get out, come and see!

00:29:09 Is that hard?

00:38:26 I'm making myself an omelette. It isn't worthy of you...

00:41:28 But who could carry off a machine that heavy?

00:44:56 I didn't know a seminarist could work as a labourer.

00:47:28 You can sympathize, understand

00:49:42 that He doesn't want to see His creatures suffer.

00:52:26 Some other time! Good-bye!

00:59:23 If I could help in another way

01:01:46 My mind was made up, I wanted to kill myself...

01:03:59 That's the way it is. There are so many people on earth.

01:06:24 Forgive me for dragging you off along this rocky road.

01:09:31 You want to refuse all that? You want to give it all up?

01:12:16 are easier to do than to say.

01:16:17 Mr Bagheri.

01:19:59 bring two small stones and throw them at me.

Cast & Characters

Homayoun Ershadi Agha-ye. Badiei Abdolhosein Bagheri Kargar-e Mozeh Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari Pelastik jam kon Safar Ali Moradi The Soldier (Sarbaz) Mir Hossein Noori The Seminarian (Talabeh) Ahmad Ansari Negahban-e Karkhaneh Hamid Masoumi Mard-e Bajeh Telefon Elham Imani The Photographer (Dokhtar-e moghabel-e mozeh)

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed798

Dialogue density8.1 lines / min

First line00:00:49

Final line01:19:59

Production Record

DirectorAbbas Kiarostami

LanguagePersian

IMDb votes39,397