Rosewater
2014In 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.
Acted in
Gael García Bernal
as Maziar Bahari
Shohreh Aghdashloo
as Moloojoon
Jason Jones
as Jason Jones
Haluk Bilginer
as Baba Akbar
Nasser Faris
as Haj Agha
Andrew Gower
as Jimmy the avid editor
Kim Bodnia
as Javadi (Rosewater)
Dimitri Leonidas
as Davood
Golshifteh Farahani
as Maryam
Claire Foy
as Paola
Amir El-Masry
as Alireza
Kambiz Hosseini
as Hassan
Numan Acar
as Rahim
Arian Moayed
as Hamid
Ayman Sharaiha
as Blue-Eyed Seyyed
Zeid Kattan
as Seyyed
Ali Elayan
as Channel One State TV Interviewer
Nidal Ali
as Prison Soundsman
Alex Klaus
as Prison Barber
Firas Fanni
as Another Prisoner
Alaadin Khasawneh
as Prison Guard
Hamid Masri
as Admission Guard #1
Wissam Tobaileh
as Admission Guard #2
Amir Rahimzadeh
as Abdul
Manar Mughrabi
as Female Agent
Mohammad Abdel Raheem
as Cyrus
Manaf Irani
as Avid Debate Watcher
Mohammad Sami
as Teenage Boy
Miles Jupp
as Maziar's Producer
Lindsey Hilsum
as Herself
Ed Ward
as Field Producer
Jonathan Hopper
as Young Rosewater
Bassam Hanna
as Rosewater's Father
Nafisa Ghazi
as Rosewater's Mother
Hassan Sha'er
as 1980 Prison Warden
Ahmad Massad
as Tavab
Hamza Muhaisen
as Young Maziar
Saif Goussous
as Polling Station Policeman
Ali Hussein
as Maziar's Newborn Daughter
Saro Karaoghlanian
as Maziar's Friend
Hannah Douglass
as Flight Attendant
Eyad Zoubi
as Shah's Guard
Mohammad Nizar
as Cyrus