
About
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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Gael García Bernal
Maziar Bahari

Shohreh Aghdashloo
Moloojoon

Jason Jones
Jason Jones

Haluk Bilginer
Baba Akbar

Nasser Faris
Haj Agha

Andrew Gower
Jimmy the avid editor

Kim Bodnia
Javadi (Rosewater)

Dimitri Leonidas
Davood

Golshifteh Farahani
Maryam

Claire Foy
Paola

Amir El-Masry
Alireza
Kambiz Hosseini
Hassan

Numan Acar
Rahim

Arian Moayed
Hamid
Ayman Sharaiha
Blue-Eyed Seyyed
Zeid Kattan
Seyyed
Ali Elayan
Channel One State TV Interviewer
Nidal Ali
Prison Soundsman

Alex Klaus
Prison Barber
Firas Fanni
Another Prisoner
Alaadin Khasawneh
Prison Guard
Hamid Masri
Admission Guard #1
Wissam Tobaileh
Admission Guard #2

Amir Rahimzadeh
Abdul
Manar Mughrabi
Female Agent
Mohammad Abdel Raheem
Cyrus
Manaf Irani
Avid Debate Watcher
Mohammad Sami
Teenage Boy

Miles Jupp
Maziar's Producer
Lindsey Hilsum
Herself
Ed Ward
Field Producer
Jonathan Hopper
Young Rosewater
Bassam Hanna
Rosewater's Father
Nafisa Ghazi
Rosewater's Mother
Hassan Sha'er
1980 Prison Warden
Ahmad Massad
Tavab
Hamza Muhaisen
Young Maziar
Saif Goussous
Polling Station Policeman
Ali Hussein
Maziar's Newborn Daughter
Saro Karaoghlanian
Maziar's Friend

Hannah Douglass
Flight Attendant
Eyad Zoubi
Shah's Guard

Mohammad Nizar
Cyrus
Director

Jon Stewart
Director
Mary Bailey
Script Supervisor
Creator

Maziar Bahari
Story
Aimee Molloy
Story

Jon Stewart
Screenplay