Rosewater
Rosewater

Rosewater

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2014
1h 43m
6.4(188 votes)
Drama

Overview

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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OddLot Entertainment

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Cast & Crew

43 members
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Gael García Bernal

Maziar Bahari

Gael García Bernal
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Shohreh Aghdashloo

Moloojoon

Shohreh Aghdashloo
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Kim Bodnia

Javadi (Rosewater)

Kim Bodnia
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Claire Foy

Paola

Claire Foy
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Haluk Bilginer

Baba Akbar

Haluk Bilginer
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Golshifteh Farahani

Maryam

Golshifteh Farahani
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Nasser Faris

Haj Agha

Nasser Faris
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Dimitri Leonidas

Davood

Dimitri Leonidas
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Amir El-Masry

Alireza

Amir El-Masry
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Arian Moayed

Hamid

Arian Moayed
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Numan Acar

Rahim

Numan Acar
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Andrew Gower

Jimmy the avid editor

Andrew Gower
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Jason Jones

Jason Jones

Jason Jones
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Kambiz Hosseini

Hassan

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Ayman Sharaiha

Blue-Eyed Seyyed

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Zeid Kattan

Seyyed

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Ali Elayan

Channel One State TV Interviewer

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Nidal Ali

Prison Soundsman

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Alex Klaus

Prison Barber

Alex Klaus
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Firas Fanni

Another Prisoner

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Alaadin Khasawneh

Prison Guard

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Hamid Masri

Admission Guard #1

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Wissam Tobaileh

Admission Guard #2

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Amir Rahimzadeh

Abdul

Amir Rahimzadeh
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Manar Mughrabi

Female Agent

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Mohammad Abdel Raheem

Cyrus

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Manaf Irani

Avid Debate Watcher

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Mohammad Sami

Teenage Boy

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Miles Jupp

Maziar's Producer

Miles Jupp
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Lindsey Hilsum

Herself

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Ed Ward

Field Producer

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Jonathan Hopper

Young Rosewater

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Bassam Hanna

Rosewater's Father

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Nafisa Ghazi

Rosewater's Mother

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Hassan Sha'er

1980 Prison Warden

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Ahmad Massad

Tavab

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Hamza Muhaisen

Young Maziar

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Saif Goussous

Polling Station Policeman

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Ali Hussein

Maziar's Newborn Daughter

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Saro Karaoghlanian

Maziar's Friend

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Hannah Douglass

Flight Attendant

Hannah Douglass
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Eyad Zoubi

Shah's Guard

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Mohammad Nizar

Cyrus

Mohammad Nizar

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