Rosewater

Rosewater

2014•1h 43m•6.4/10

Drama

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.4/10(191)

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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Production

International Traders, OddLot Entertainment, Busboy Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Gael García Bernal

Gael García Bernal

Maziar Bahari

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Moloojoon

Kim Bodnia

Kim Bodnia

Javadi (Rosewater)

Claire Foy

Claire Foy

Paola

Haluk Bilginer

Haluk Bilginer

Baba Akbar

Golshifteh Farahani

Golshifteh Farahani

Maryam

Nasser Faris

Nasser Faris

Haj Agha

Dimitri Leonidas

Dimitri Leonidas

Davood

Amir El-Masry

Amir El-Masry

Alireza

Arian Moayed

Arian Moayed

Hamid

Numan Acar

Numan Acar

Rahim

Andrew Gower

Andrew Gower

Jimmy the avid editor

Jason Jones

Jason Jones

Jason Jones

Kambiz Hosseini

Hassan

Ayman Sharaiha

Blue-Eyed Seyyed

Zeid Kattan

Seyyed

Ali Elayan

Channel One State TV Interviewer

Nidal Ali

Prison Soundsman

Alex Klaus

Alex Klaus

Prison Barber

Firas Fanni

Another Prisoner

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