Rosewater (2014)
November 24, 2014 5:24 AM - Subscribe
The screenwriting and directing debut of Jon Stewart tells the story of a journalist held in captivity in Iran, on suspicion that he is a spy.
From Wikipedia:
In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari (Gael García Bernal) was detained in Iran for 118 days because of a satirical interview he gave regarding the country's presidential election. Bahari was arrested and, while his pregnant fiancée waited for him, spent four months at Evin Prison being brutally interrogated. The film suggests his video evidence of the protests he provided to the BBC was the actual reason for his incarceration.
Bahari was usually blindfolded when being interrogated, and the sole distinguishing feature of his interrogator was that the interrogator smelled of rosewater.
I have seen this movie referred to (only partially jokingly) as "the movie that made John Oliver a star." (Oliver guest-hosted The Daily Show while Stewart was away making this film, and he was so good at it that HBO offered him his own show, which is now a huge hit.)
From Wikipedia:
In 2009, London-based Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari (Gael García Bernal) was detained in Iran for 118 days because of a satirical interview he gave regarding the country's presidential election. Bahari was arrested and, while his pregnant fiancée waited for him, spent four months at Evin Prison being brutally interrogated. The film suggests his video evidence of the protests he provided to the BBC was the actual reason for his incarceration.
Bahari was usually blindfolded when being interrogated, and the sole distinguishing feature of his interrogator was that the interrogator smelled of rosewater.
I have seen this movie referred to (only partially jokingly) as "the movie that made John Oliver a star." (Oliver guest-hosted The Daily Show while Stewart was away making this film, and he was so good at it that HBO offered him his own show, which is now a huge hit.)
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