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Rosewater is a drama, based on the book Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy, written and directed by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart. Gael García Bernal stars as Bahari, the Iranian-Canadian journalist held captive in Iran, and also stars Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo and Danish actor Kim Bodnia.

Rosewater follows the Tehran-born Bahari, a 42-year-old broadcast journalist with Canadian citizenship living in London. In June 2009, Bahari returned to Iran to interview Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who was the prime challenger to controversial incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As Moussavi’s supporters rose up to protest Ahmadinejad’s victory declaration hours before the polls closed on election day, Bahari endured great personal risk by submitting camera footage of the unfolding street riots to the BBC. Bahari was soon arrested by Revolutionary Guard police, led by a man identifying himself only as “Rosewater,” who proceeded to torture and interrogate the journalist over the next 118 days.

Strangely enough, it was an appearance on Stewart’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart that set Bahari on the course that would lead to his imprisonment. Obviously meant to be satirical, the Iranian government saw Bahari on the show and believed he was some sort of spy.

Rosewater is rated 14A.

Read our review of the film here.

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