Kiarostami invited him to star in his 1997 masterpiece “Taste of Cherry”, which went on to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes and cemented Iran’s place in the global art film movement. The director’s instinct proved visionary: Ershadi’s natural, unembellished presence became a hallmark of the film’s meditative realism.
A much-feted figure in world cinema, award-winning Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami dies in Paris at 76.
