Rosewater
2014 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 day. The journalist Maziar Bahari was blindfolded and interrogated for 4 months in Evin prison in Iran, while the only distinguishable feature about his captor is the distinct smell of rosewater. An interview and sketch that Maziar did with a journalist on The Daily show was used as evidence that Maziar was a spy and in communication with the American government and the CIA.
Direction Jon Stewart
Cast Gael García Bernal · Shohreh Aghdashloo · Kim Bodnia · Dimitri Leonidas · Golshifteh Farahani · Haluk Bilginer · Numan Acar · Amir Rahimzadeh · Arian Moayed
Soundtrack Howard Shore
Screenplay Jon Stewart · Maziar Bahari · Aimee Molloy
Cinematography Bobby Bukowski
Original title Rosewater
5.5
469 votes (FilmAffinity)
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