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  Rosewater

Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 day. 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 was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA.

103 Minutes

Jon Stewart (screenplay)
Maziar Bahari (book)

Jon Stewart

Gael García Bernal....Maziar Bahari
Kim Bodnia....Rosewater
Dimitri Leonidas....Davood
Haluk Bilginer....Baba Akbar
Shohreh Aghdashloo....Moloojoon
Golshifteh Farahani....Maryam
Claire Foy....Paola
Amir El-Masry....Alireza
Nasser Faris....Haj Agha
Kambiz Hosseini....Hassan
Numan Acar....Rahim
Ayman Sharaiha....Blue-Eyed Seyyed
Zeid Kattan....Seyyed
Ali Elayan....Channel One State TV Interviewer
Nidal Ali....Prison Soundsman

strong language, threat, sex references

Genres

Biography, Drama

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