He was a non-professional actor, but made his mark in the history of cinema and achieved international fame by playing leading roles in classic films. cherry flavor. Homayoun Ershadi from Iran died this Tuesday, November 11 at the age of 78, after battling cancer, the official Irna office said. The Iranian Cinema House confirmed his death, praising Homayoun Ershadi as a leading figure in the world of cinema, theater and television.
Iranian government spokesperson, Fatemeh Mohajerani, also mourned the death “a noble and wise actor of Iranian cinema”. His face will remain like this man, the main character of cherry flavor drove around Tehran, stopping pedestrians to offer help in his suicide plans. Namely throwing several shovelfuls of dirt on his body the next morning, when he had committed suicide. Soldiers, unemployed, workers, all refused the would-be death request. An old taxidermist accepts, but also tries to restore her will to live by reminding her of the “taste of cherries.” This film by the late Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.
Born in 1947 in Isfahan, central Iran, Homayoun Ershadi initially studied and worked in architecture. After the role that made him famous, he starred in Hollywood productions, such as Kabul Kites (2007), an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Khaled Hosseini, or in a British spy film A man who is much sought after by Anton Corbijn (2014). He also appears in Zero Dark Thirty (2012) by Kathryn Bigelow, the film traces the death of Osama bin Laden and was nominated for an Oscar.
