Rosewater

Rosewater

103 mins | Drama | Nov. 7, 2014

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

103 mins | Drama | Nov. 7, 2014

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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers OddLot Entertainment, International Traders, Busboy Productions
Original title Rosewater
Directors Mary Bailey, Jon Stewart
Writers Aimee Molloy, Maziar Bahari, Jon Stewart

Cast

Gael GarcĂ­a Bernal

as Maziar Bahari

Shohreh Aghdashloo

as Moloojoon

Jason Jones

as Jason Jones

Haluk Bilginer

as Baba Akbar

Nasser Faris

as Haj Agha

Andrew Gower

as Jimmy the avid editor

Kim Bodnia

as Javadi (Rosewater)

Dimitri Leonidas

as Davood

Claire Foy

as Paola

Amir ElMasry

as Alireza

Kambiz Hosseini

as Hassan

Numan Acar

as Rahim

Arian Moayed

as Hamid

Ayman Sharaiha

as Blue-Eyed Seyyed

Zeid Kattan

as Seyyed

Ali Elayan

as Channel One State TV Interviewer

Nidal Ali

as Prison Soundsman

Alex Klaus

as Prison Barber

Firas Fanni

as Another Prisoner

Alaadin Khasawneh

as Prison Guard

Hamid Masri

as Admission Guard #1

Wissam Tobaileh

as Admission Guard #2

Amir Rahimzadeh

as Abdul

Manar Mughrabi

as Female Agent

Manaf Irani

as Avid Debate Watcher

Mohammad Sami

as Teenage Boy

Miles Jupp

as Maziar's Producer

Lindsey Hilsum

as Herself

Ed Ward

as Field Producer

Jonathan Hopper

as Young Rosewater

Bassam Hanna

as Rosewater's Father

Nafisa Ghazi

as Rosewater's Mother

Hassan Sha'er

as 1980 Prison Warden

Ahmad Massad

as Tavab

Hamza Muhaisen

as Young Maziar

Saif Goussous

as Polling Station Policeman

Ali Hussein

as Maziar's Newborn Daughter

Saro Karaoghlanian

as Maziar's Friend

Hannah Douglass

as Flight Attendant

Eyad Zoubi

as Shah's Guard

Mohammad Nizar

as Cyrus