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2014 • 1h 43min • R • Drama

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 6.6

RT 76%

MC 67

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Jon Stewart

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Maziar Bahari

Aimee Molloy

Jon Stewart

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Gael García Bernal

Maziar Bahari

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Moloojoon

Kim Bodnia

Javadi (Rosewater)

Claire Foy

Paola

Haluk Bilginer

Baba Akbar

Golshifteh Farahani

Maryam

Nasser Faris

Haj Agha

Dimitri Leonidas

Davood

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Gael García Bernal Maziar Bahari

Shohreh Aghdashloo Moloojoon

Kim Bodnia Javadi (Rosewater)

Claire Foy Paola

Haluk Bilginer Baba Akbar

Golshifteh Farahani Maryam

Nasser Faris Haj Agha

Dimitri Leonidas Davood

Amir El-Masry Alireza

Arian Moayed Hamid

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Kambiz Hosseini Hassan

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