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Rosewater

Year:

2014

Duration:

103 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama

IMDB rate:

6.7

Director:

Jon Stewart

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2014-11-27

Filming Locations: Amman, Jordan

Earnings

Budget: $5,000,000

Opening Weekend: $1,154,303 (USA) (30 January 2015)

Gross: $3,128,941 (USA) (30 January 2015)

Cast

Actor

Character

Gael García Bernal

Maziar Bahari

Kim Bodnia

Javadi (Rosewater)

Dimitri Leonidas

Davood

Haluk Bilginer

Baba Akbar

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Moloojoon

Golshifteh Farahani

Maryam

Claire Foy

Paola

Amir El-Masry

Alireza

Nasser Faris

Haj Agha

Kambiz Hosseini

Hassan

Numan Acar

Rahim

Ayman Sharaiha

Blue-Eyed Seyyed

Zeid Kattan

Seyyed

Ali Elayan

Channel One State TV Interviewer

Nidal Ali

Prison Soundsman

Alex Claus

Prison Barber

Firas Fanni

Another Prisoner

Alaadin Khasawneh

Prison Guard

Hamid Masri

Admission Guard #1

Wissam Tobaileh

Admission Guard #2

Amir Rahimzadeh

Abdul

Manar Mughrabi

Female Agent

Arian Moayed

Hamid

Mohammad Abdel Raheem

Cyrus

Manaf Irani

Avid Debate Watcher

Mohammad Sami

Teenage Boy

Miles Jupp

Maziar's Producer

Andrew Gower

Jimmy the Avid Editor

Lindsey Hilsum

Herself

Ed Ward

Field Producer

Jason Jones

Jonathan Hopper

Young Rosewater

Bassam Hanna

Rosewater's Father

Nafisa Ghazi

Rosewater's Mother

Hassan Sha'er

1980 Prison Warden

Ahmad Massad

Tavab

Hamza Muhaisen

Young Maziar

Saif Goussous

Polling Station Policeman

Ali Hussein

Maziar's Newborn Daughter

Saro Karaoghlanian

Maziar's Friend

Hannah Douglas

Flight Attendant

Eyad Zoubi

Shah's Guard

Bijan Daryani

Prisoner (uncredited voice)

Larry Nuñez

Prisoner (uncredited)

Hugh O'Brien

Business Man (uncredited)

Laith Soudani

House party guest (uncredited)

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Trivia

Jason Jones was cast to play himself because of an interview on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (1996) that partially led to Maziar Bahari's imprisonment. During Bahari's interrogation, he was shown the interview between himself and Jones that the Iranian government claimed was proof that Bahari was a spy. Bahari later stated the interrogators were fabricating charges to the Iranian government and were aware of Jones' satirical and risky approach.

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Maziar Bahari was imprisoned, interrogated, and beaten in Iran for 118 days in 2009 on charges that he was attempting to stage the overthrow of the Iranian government. One of the pieces of "evidence" that Bahari's Iranian captors held against him as proof of his guilt was footage from a segment on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (1996) in which he was interviewed by Jason Jones pretending to be a spy. During the sketch, Bahari called Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an "idiot". After he was released, Bahari was interviewed on "The Daily Show" by Jon Stewart, who discussed the role that the show had (inadvertently) played in his imprisonment. Stewart and Bahari became friendly, and Stewart decided to adapt Bahari's 2011 book "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival" (co-written with Aimee Molloy) into a screenplay.