Rosewater

Rosewater

Rosewater

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2014•103 min•Drama

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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

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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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