Title | : | Rosewater |
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Release | : | 2014 |
Rating | : | 6.6 |
Language | : | English |
Runtime | : | 103 |
Genre | : | Biography,Drama |
Based of a true story about a journalist who gets detained and brutally interrogated in prison for 118 days. 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.
Jon Stewart (screenplay), Maziar Bahari (book), Aimee Molloy (book)