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Rosewater
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Title: Rosewater

Release Date: 7 Nov 2014

Runtime: 1h 43m

Genre: Drama

Director: International Traders, OddLot Entertainment, Busboy Productions

Production Companies: International Traders, OddLot Entertainment, Busboy Productions

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.

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Average Vote: 6.5 (175 votes)

Cast

  • Maziar Bahari: Gael García Bernal
  • Moloojoon: Shohreh Aghdashloo
  • Jason Jones: Jason Jones
  • Baba Akbar: Haluk Bilginer
  • Haj Agha: Nasser Faris
  • Jimmy the avid editor: Andrew Gower
  • Javadi (Rosewater): Kim Bodnia
  • Davood: Dimitri Leonidas
  • Maryam: Golshifteh Farahani
  • Paola: Claire Foy
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