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Taste of Cherry (Persian: طعم گیلاس..., Ta’m-e gīlās...) is a 1997 Iranian minimalist drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Abbas Kiarostami, and starring Homayoun Ershadi as a middle-aged Tehran man who drives through a city suburb in search of someone willing to carry out the task of burying him after he commits suicide.
1997: The Birth of Light: Short Taste of Cherry: Ta'm-e gilass: 95 minutes: Starring Homayon Ershadi. Won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival: 1999: The Wind Will Carry Us: Bād mā rā khāhad bord: 118 minutes: Golden Lion nomination at Venice Willow and Wind: Screenwriter only. 2001: ABC Africa: 84 minutes
But, Kiarostami did not consider the three films to comprise a trilogy. He suggested that the last two titles plus Taste of Cherry (1997) comprise a trilogy, given their common theme of the preciousness of life. [22] In 1987, Kiarostami was involved in the screenwriting of The Key, which he edited but did not direct. In 1989, he released Homework.
Where Is the Friend's Home? depicts the simple story of a young boy who travels from Koker to a neighbouring village to return the notebook of a schoolmate. Life and Nothing More follows a father and his young son as they drive from Tehran to Koker in search of the two young boys who had acted in Where Is the Friend's Home?, fearing that the two might have perished in the 1990 Iran earthquake ...
The Palme d'Or was jointly awarded to Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami for the drama film Taste of Cherry and to Japanese filmmaker Shōhei Imamura for the drama film The Eel. [4] [5] The festival opened with The Fifth Element by Luc Besson, and closed with Absolute Power by Clint Eastwood. [6]
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Homayoun Ershadi (also spelled Homayon Ershadi, Persian: همایون ارشادی; born March 26, 1947) is an Iranian actor, known for his debut role in Taste of Cherry (1997), and several Iranian and other films since then, including European films like Agora or Hollywood films like The Kite Runner and Zero Dark Thirty.
In its nine years of existence, Ciby 2000 produced or co-produced four Palme d'Or winners: The Piano, Underground, Taste of Cherry and Secrets & Lies. The company officially folded in 1998 amidst financial difficulties. [1] [2] The company was relaunched in 2004 with the release of Immortal.