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Released
1997 · FILM

Taste of Cherry

A despondent Tehran driver embarks on a desperate quest to find anyone willing to bury him after he ends his own life, confronting strangers who either reject his request or battle to change his mind before it's too late.

Directed by
Abbas Kiarostami
Written by
Abbas Kiarostami
Rated
KAVI · S
Runtime
99 min
Language
FA
Drama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Mr. Badii, a middle-aged man from Tehran, is determined to take his own life and sets out to find someone who will bury him afterward. Driving around the city, Badii—appearing to be a man of means—approaches various individuals, including a Muslim student, and asks them to take on the responsibility, but he initially faces rejection. Eventually, he finds a man willing to help, as he needs the money, but this new companion soon begins to discourage Badii from going through with the suicide.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 12

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Abbas KiarostamiShot by Homayun Payvar

Box Office

1997 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$11K

Budget$120K
Worldwide gross$11K
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Geschmack der Kirschede
  • Ta'm e guilassde
  • Ta'm-e gīlāsde
  • Ta'm e guilassen
  • Ta'm-e gīlāsen
  • Taste of Cherryen
  • El sabor de las cerezases
  • Ta'm e guilasses
  • Ta'm-e gīlāses
  • Le Goût de la cerisefr
  • Ta'm e guilassfr
  • Ta'm-e gīlāsfr
  • Il sapore della ciliegiait

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