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.
Rosewater
Overview
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.
Director
Jon Stewart
Status
Released
Production
International Traders, OddLot Entertainment, Busboy Productions
Cast
Gael García Bernal
Maziar Bahari
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Moloojoon
Kim Bodnia
Javadi (Rosewater)
Claire Foy
Paola
Haluk Bilginer
Baba Akbar
Golshifteh Farahani
Maryam
Nasser Faris
Haj Agha
Dimitri Leonidas
Davood
Amir El-Masry
Alireza
Arian Moayed
Hamid
Numan Acar
Rahim
Andrew Gower
Jimmy the avid editor
Jason Jones
Jason Jones
Kambiz Hosseini
Hassan
Ayman Sharaiha
Blue-Eyed Seyyed
Zeid Kattan
Seyyed
Ali Elayan
Channel One State TV Interviewer
Nidal Ali
Prison Soundsman
Alex Klaus
Prison Barber
Firas Fanni
Another Prisoner
Alaadin Khasawneh
Prison Guard
Hamid Masri
Admission Guard #1
Wissam Tobaileh
Admission Guard #2
Amir Rahimzadeh
Abdul
Manar Mughrabi
Female Agent
Mohammad Abdel Raheem
Cyrus
Manaf Irani
Avid Debate Watcher
Mohammad Sami
Teenage Boy
Miles Jupp
Maziar's Producer
Lindsey Hilsum
Herself
Ed Ward
Field Producer
Jonathan Hopper
Young Rosewater
Bassam Hanna
Rosewater's Father
Nafisa Ghazi
Rosewater's Mother
Hassan Sha'er
1980 Prison Warden
Ahmad Massad
Tavab
Hamza Muhaisen
Young Maziar
Saif Goussous
Polling Station Policeman
Ali Hussein
Maziar's Newborn Daughter
Saro Karaoghlanian
Maziar's Friend
Hannah Douglass
Flight Attendant
Eyad Zoubi
Shah's Guard
Mohammad Nizar
Cyrus
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