Rosewater
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Synopsis
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Ensemble
Cast
Directed by Jon Stewart
Gael García Bernal
Maziar Bahari
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Moloojoon
Jason Jones
Jason Jones
Haluk Bilginer
Baba Akbar
Nasser Faris
Haj Agha
Andrew Gower
Jimmy the avid editor
Kim Bodnia
Javadi (Rosewater)
Dimitri Leonidas
Davood
Golshifteh Farahani
Maryam
Claire Foy
Paola
Amir El-Masry
Alireza
Kambiz Hosseini
Hassan
Numan Acar
Rahim
Arian Moayed
Hamid
Ayman Sharaiha
Blue-Eyed Seyyed
Zeid Kattan
Seyyed
Production
The details
Release
2014
Runtime
103 min
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