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Rosewater (2014)

Poster for 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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Jon Stewart
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    Maziar Bahari Gael García Bernal
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    Moloojoon Shohreh Aghdashloo
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    Jason Jones Jason Jones
  • Profile picture of Haluk Bilginer
    Baba Akbar Haluk Bilginer
  • Profile picture of Nasser Faris
    Haj Agha Nasser Faris
  • Profile picture of Andrew Gower
    Jimmy the avid editor Andrew Gower
  • Profile picture of Kim Bodnia
    Javadi (Rosewater) Kim Bodnia
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    Davood Dimitri Leonidas

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