Rosewater
2014, Film, 103 min, Biography, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 65
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.
Directed by Jon Stewart
Cast
- Gael García Bernal as Maziar Bahari
- Kim Bodnia as Javadi (Rosewater)
- Dimitri Leonidas as Davood
- Haluk Bilginer as Baba Akbar
- Shohreh Aghdashloo as Moloojoon
- Golshifteh Farahani as Maryam
- Claire Foy as Paola
- Amir El-Masry as Alireza
- Nasser Faris as Haj Agha
- Kambiz Hosseini as Hassan
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