TASTE OF CHERRY

Golden Palm, Cannes 1997


Original language: Persian

Subtitles: English, Romanian


Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami

Country: Iran

Year of production: 1997

Length: 98 minutes

Genre: drama

A tale of one middle-aged man who wishes to die in a society where suicide is considered as an abomination. Driving in the hills above Tehran, he meets an assortment of different characters, each with reasons to turn down the job: fear, religious scruples and humanist revulsion at a life willfully squandered.