Plot
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
Gael García Bernal
Maziar Bahari
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Moloojoon
Kim Bodnia
Javadi (Rosewater)
Claire Foy
Paola
Haluk Bilginer
Baba Akbar
Golshifteh Farahani
Maryam
Nasser Faris
Haj Agha
Dimitri Leonidas
Davood
Amir El-Masry
Alireza
Arian Moayed
Hamid
Numan Acar
Rahim
Andrew Gower
Jimmy the avid editor
Crew
Jon Stewart
Director
Jon Stewart
Screenplay
Gigi Pritzker
Producer
Scott Rudin
Producer
Jon Stewart
Producer
Bobby Bukowski
Director of Photography
Howard Shore
Original Music Composer
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