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.

00:10:55 Mir Hosein NOURl Ahmad ANSARl

00:13:21 Two months.

00:15:43 You're so fond of the place you get there

00:18:10 Of course I do, we're friends.

00:20:23 - No, no one told me. - Why ask me then?

00:24:01 otherwise I wouldn't have begged you...

00:26:41 Right now, they're burying dozens of people.

00:36:22 - Hello. - Hello.

00:39:38 Yes, he's a fellow-countryman.

00:41:55 I'll go and see your friend, the seminarist.

00:45:27 But you're young, you have time, you can do that later.

00:48:02 since the Hadiths, our twelve lmams and the Koran

00:50:16 Go and look. I'll explain afterwards.

00:57:45 If you want cement, you have to go to the office.

00:59:59 If you don't explain your problem

01:02:37 Suddenly, I noticed

01:04:44 "When I touch my body with my finger, it hurts.

01:07:37 Have you lost all hope?

01:10:58 Tell me, we barely know each other.

01:13:01 Thanks for bringing me back here... Thanks again!

01:17:49 We were supposed to study quails!

04:00:04 in the regiment.

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 line04:00:04

Production Record

DirectorAbbas Kiarostami

LanguagePersian

IMDb votes39,397