Rosewater
2014·United States·103 min.
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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.
DirectorJon Stewart
MusicHoward Shore
CinematographyBobby Bukowski
CastGael García Bernal·Shohreh Aghdashloo·Kim Bodnia·Dimitri Leonidas·Golshifteh Farahani·Haluk Bilginer·Numan Acar·Amir Rahimzadeh·Arian Moayed
Original titleRosewater