Rosewater

The story

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.

Cast

G Gael García BernalMaziar Bahari S Shohreh AghdashlooMoloojoon K Kim BodniaJavadi (Rosewater) C Claire FoyPaola H Haluk BilginerBaba Akbar G Golshifteh FarahaniMaryam N Nasser FarisHaj Agha D Dimitri LeonidasDavood A Amir El-MasryAlireza A Arian MoayedHamid N Numan AcarRahim A Andrew GowerJimmy the avid editor

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J Jason JonesJason Jones K Kambiz HosseiniHassan A Ayman SharaihaBlue-Eyed Seyyed Z Zeid KattanSeyyed A Ali ElayanChannel One State TV Interviewer N Nidal AliPrison Soundsman A Alex KlausPrison Barber F Firas FanniAnother Prisoner A Alaadin KhasawnehPrison Guard H Hamid MasriAdmission Guard #1 W Wissam TobailehAdmission Guard #2 A Amir RahimzadehAbdul M Manar MughrabiFemale Agent M Mohammad Abdel RaheemCyrus M Manaf IraniAvid Debate Watcher M Mohammad SamiTeenage Boy M Miles JuppMaziar's Producer L Lindsey HilsumHerself E Ed WardField Producer J Jonathan HopperYoung Rosewater B Bassam HannaRosewater's Father N Nafisa GhaziRosewater's Mother H Hassan Sha'er1980 Prison Warden A Ahmad MassadTavab H Hamza MuhaisenYoung Maziar S Saif GoussousPolling Station Policeman A Ali HusseinMaziar's Newborn Daughter S Saro KaraoghlanianMaziar's Friend H Hannah DouglassFlight Attendant E Eyad ZoubiShah's Guard M Mohammad NizarCyrus