Rosewater backdrop

Rosewater 2014 Directed by Jon Stewart

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.

Country USA
Production Country USA
Language English
Spoken Language English
Release Date 7 November 2014
103 mins
Cast
Gael García Bernal Maziar Bahari
Jason Jones Jason Jones
Haluk Bilginer Baba Akbar
Nasser Faris Haj Agha
Andrew Gower Jimmy the avid editor
Kim Bodnia Javadi (Rosewater)
Ayman Sharaiha Blue-Eyed Seyyed
Zeid Kattan Seyyed
Ali Elayan Channel One State TV Interviewer
Nidal Ali Prison Soundsman
Alex Klaus Prison Barber
Firas Fanni Another Prisoner
Alaadin Khasawneh Prison Guard
Hamid Masri Admission Guard #1
Wissam Tobaileh Admission Guard #2
Manar Mughrabi Female Agent
Manaf Irani Avid Debate Watcher
Mohammad Sami Teenage Boy
Miles Jupp Maziar's Producer
Ed Ward Field Producer
Jonathan Hopper Young Rosewater
Bassam Hanna Rosewater's Father
Nafisa Ghazi Rosewater's Mother
Hassan Sha'er 1980 Prison Warden
Hamza Muhaisen Young Maziar
Saif Goussous Polling Station Policeman
Ali Hussein Maziar's Newborn Daughter
Saro Karaoghlanian Maziar's Friend
Hannah Douglass Flight Attendant
Eyad Zoubi Shah's Guard