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.
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Cast
43 people
Gael García Bernal
Maziar Bahari
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Coco
Old
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Moloojoon
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Kim Bodnia
Javadi (Rosewater)
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Claire Foy
Paola
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Haluk Bilginer
Baba Akbar
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Golshifteh Farahani
Maryam
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Invasion
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Nasser Faris
Haj Agha
Known for
The Week Of
House of Sand and Fog
Dimitri Leonidas
Davood
Known for
Foundation
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Amir El-Masry
Alireza
Known for
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
SAS Rogue Heroes
Arian Moayed
Hamid
Known for
Succession
Ms. Marvel
Numan Acar
Rahim
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Aladdin
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Andrew Gower
Jimmy the avid editor
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Carnival Row
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Jon Stewart Director · Maziar Bahari Story Aimee Molloy Story
Worldwide gross $3.2M · Budget $10M · United States release November 7, 2014
Box office
Budget
$10,000,000
Worldwide gross
$3,200,000
Gross vs. budget
0.3×
Production
International Traders
Production
OddLot Entertainment
Production
Busboy Productions
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · August 29, 2014
Premiere · Telluride Film Festival
United States · November 7, 2014
Theatrical
Australia
January 27, 2015 · Theatrical
Brazil
November 7, 2014 · Theatrical
Canada
September 8, 2014 · Premiere · Toronto International Film Festival
Greece
August 6, 2015 · Theatrical
Ireland
May 8, 2015 · Digital
Israel
November 27, 2014 · Theatrical
August 20, 2015 · TV
United Kingdom
October 12, 2014 · Premiere · London Film Festival
May 8, 2015 · Theatrical
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