Rosewater

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
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  Shohreh Aghdashloo

  Moloojoon
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  Kim Bodnia

  Javadi (Rosewater)
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  Claire Foy

  Paola
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  Haluk Bilginer

  Baba Akbar
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  Golshifteh Farahani

  Maryam
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  Nasser Faris

  Haj Agha
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  Dimitri Leonidas

  Davood
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  Amir El-Masry

  Alireza
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  Arian Moayed

  Hamid