Rosewater

Nov 27 2014 R 1h 43m
Biography, Drama

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.

Plot

Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. The journalist Maziar Bahari was blindfolded and interrogated for 4 months in Evin prison in Iran, while the only distinguishable feature about his captor is the distinct smell of rosewater. An interview and sketch that Maziar did with a journalist on The Daily Show (1996) was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA.

Written by

Jon Stewart, Maziar Bahari, Aimee Molloy

Directed by

Jon Stewart

Cast

Gael García Bernal, Kim Bodnia, Dimitri Leonidas

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

International Traders, OddLot Entertainment, Busboy Productions

Languages

English

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination total

Trailers
Rosewater TRAILER 1 (2014) - Gael García Bernal, Jon Stewart Drama HD
Scores
# of Votes
11,144
Average Rating
6.6 out of 10
Metascore
67
Popularity
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