Rosewater
- Released on
- Runtime
- 103 mins
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.
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
- Gael García Bernal
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Jason Jones
- Haluk Bilginer
- Nasser Faris
- Andrew Gower
- Kim Bodnia
- Dimitri Leonidas
- Golshifteh Farahani
- Claire Foy
- Amir El-Masry
- Kambiz Hosseini
- Numan Acar
- Arian Moayed
- Ayman Sharaiha
- Zeid Kattan
- Ali Elayan
- Nidal Ali
- Alex Klaus
- Firas Fanni
- Alaadin Khasawneh
- Hamid Masri
- Wissam Tobaileh
- Amir Rahimzadeh
- Manar Mughrabi
- Mohammad Abdel Raheem
- Manaf Irani
- Mohammad Sami
- Miles Jupp
- Lindsey Hilsum
- Ed Ward
- Jonathan Hopper
- Bassam Hanna
- Nafisa Ghazi
- Hassan Sha'er
- Ahmad Massad
- Hamza Muhaisen
- Saif Goussous
- Ali Hussein
- Saro Karaoghlanian
- Hannah Douglass
- Eyad Zoubi
- Mohammad Nizar
Director
- Jon Stewart
Producers
- Atilla Salih Yücer
- Gigi Pritzker
- Scott Rudin
- Jon Stewart
Screenwriter
- Jon Stewart
