Williamsburg Regional Library

Taste of Cherry

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Taste of Cherry
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Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Taste of Cherry
Medium
electronic resource
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Originally produced by Mk2 Films in 1997
Runtime
99
Summary
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 : Afghans, Kurds, Turks, prisoners of the desert, a soldier, a seminary student and a museum employee, each with reasons to turn down the job : fear, religious scruples and humanist revulsion at a life wilfully squandered
Technique
live action
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