Taste of Cherry (Ta'm e guilass) (طعم گيلاس)

In the name of God

Laborers?

A laborer? You want laborers?

No.

- You want laborers? Do you? - How many?

Take two.

- Hello, mister. - Hello.

How are you doing?

- What are you doing? - Playing cars.

Know how much a meal costs?

Get to the point.

100,000 tomans is nothing!

How will we pay it back?

Right. What are they asking for?

Where can we find title deeds?

Don't hang up.

- Do you want to make a call? - What?

- Do you want to use the phone? - No.

Yes, I'm listening.

Where?

Outside the museum? When?

All right.

Goodbye.

- I'll drop you off. - No, I'm working.

- I'm going that way. - I'm working.

- Don't act so proud. - I said I'm working!

Come here.

Just a minute, please.

Hello.

How are you?

If you have money problems, I can help you.

No.

- You don't have money problems? - No.

I can help you.

Clear off, or I'll smash your face in.

Get lost!

Hello.

- How are you? - Fine, thanks.

What is it?

- What are you collecting? - Plastic bags.

What for?

I gather them up, then sell them near the factory.

What happened to your finger?

I cut myself this morning.

Here?

Nice shirt. Where did you get it?

I found it over there last week.

Nice color. It suits you.

Know what it says on it?

Know what it says on it?

Where are you from?

Pissy, pissy! Your dick's all sticky!

- Don't mind them. - They're playing.

- Where are you from? - Near Lorestan.

Not a local then. From Lorestan.

- Are you from Lorestan too? - You could say that.

How much do you make in a day?

200, 300, 400...

700. 600.

What do you do with the money?

I send it to my family.

You want to get married?

No. I'm helping my family.

You're helping them?

So, would you do something if I asked you?

A job?

A well-paid job.

No. I don't know how.

I just collect plastic bags and sell them.

Why? Where are you going?

TASTE OF CHERRY

A film by Abbas KIAROSTAMI

with Homayoun ERSHADI

Abdol HOSSEIN BAGHERI Afshin KHORSHID BAKHTARI

Safar Ali MORADI

Mir Hossein NOORI Ahmad ANSARI

Hamid MASOUMI Elham IMANI

Assistant cameraman Farshad BASHIR ZADEH

Sound assistant Sassan BAGHERPOUR

Cameraman Alireza ANSARIAN

Titles Mehdi SAMAKAR

1st assistant director Hassan YEKTAPANAH

2nd assistant director Bahman KIAROSTAMI

Editor Abbas KIAROSTAMI

Sound Jahangir MIRSHEKARI

Mix Mohamadreza DELPAK

Photography Homayoun PAYVAR

Written, produced and directed by Abbas KIAROSTAMI

- Where are you going? - To the barracks.

Come on, get in.

Hello.

Hello.

Are you well? Where are you going?

Down there, not very far.

The barracks down there?

- Near the reservoir? - Yes.

You look tired.

I guess I am.

- Are you worn out? - Yes.

A soldier is never tired!

What do you expect? I've walked from Darabad.

- From Darabad? - Yes.

But today's a holiday.

I'm on duty tonight until 6:00 in the morning.

Then what are you doing? Where will you go?

To my aunt's.

She's dead. I stay with her husband, a janitor.

How long ago were you drafted?

How long ago were you drafted?

Two months.

- Still in training? - Yes.

Where are you from?

Kurdistan.

- And you're in the army here? - Yes.

Will you stay or go back after?

- No, I'll go back. - Sorry?

- I'll go back home. - Back to Kurdistan?

- Yes. - Good.

What did you do in Kurdistan?

What did you do there?

I was a farmer.

A farmer?

Have you studied?

Were you at school?

Not for long.

Well.

You gave up?

Why?

You know how it is.

How many people in your family?

Nine.

- Nine? - Yes.

- They all work? - Yes, all of them.

- Do you know anyone in Tehran? - Yes.

Relatives?

Yes. I have two brothers in Tehran.

Why don't you stay with them?

They're married.

They have small houses, children. I can't stay there.

Do you have money? Soldiers get pay.

- Money? - A little. The pay's not good.

Is it enough for you?

Oh, no, it's not enough.

- When do you have to be back by? - 6:00 p.m.

It's 5:00 now.

You're so fond of the place you get there an hour early?

No, not really. No.

We've got an hour to kill. How about a drive?

I may have a well-paid job to offer you to supplement your income.

I want to be at the barracks by 6:00.

- What? - I want to be back by 6:00.

I'll drive you back. Don't worry. You won't be late.

- Shall we go? - Okay.

I'll get you back by 6:00. Don't worry.

You say the barracks aren't much fun?

I had fun when I did my military service.

It was the best time of my life.

I met my closest friends there.

Especially in the first six months.

I remember we used to get up at 4:00 in the morning.

After breakfast, we'd shine our boots

and we'd go out on maneuvers.

The major would join us.

There were 40 to 50 men in the regiment.

The major would start counting.

He'd tell us to repeat,

"One.

Two.

Three.

Four."

Do you count too? Is it the same?

Well?

How do you count?

Are you shy?

- Yes. - What?

Why? Don't you count with your friends at the barracks?

Yes.

So you don't think of me as a friend.

Of course I do. We're friends.

No, you act as if we don't know each other.

- No, it's not that. - Well, then?

It's not that.

Listen, this is how we did it.

One!

Two!

Three!

Four!

One! Two! Three! Four!

One! Two! Three! Four!

- Go on, repeat after me. One! - One!

Two!

Three!

Is that how you do it at the barracks?

- Soldiers don't count like that. - I can't help it.

You're taking me a long way. I need to know what you want.

- What you have to do? - Yes.

You know, son...

if I were in your shoes, I wouldn't ask what the job is,

but rather how good the pay is.

For someone like you,