Winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes 1997 'Taste Of Cherry' is a deep philosophical study about a man who is so tired of life that he wants to commit suicide. Cruising the outskirts of Tehran Mr Badii searches for an accomplice who is willing to bury him after he is dead. He is not successful until he finally strikes a bargain with a museum guard. But before the guard agrees to the deed he wants to know why Mr Badii is so desperate to die and how it is possible to dispense with the j
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Badiei (Homayoon Irshadi) is a middle-aged man driving his white Range Rover through the outskirts of Tehran. He periodically offers lifts or financial assistance to people - a man in a telephone box, a man collecting plastic bags, a soldier - in an attempt to persuade them to bury him. For Mr Badiei intends to commit suicide, and has already dug his own grave - all he needs is someone to place his body in it and cover it up. This film won the Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1997.
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