Rosewater Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

Reporter Maziar Bahari is accused of being a spy and imprisoned by the Iranian government shortly after a "Daily Show" correspondent interviews him in Iran in 2009. He spends the next three months in Iran’s most notorious prison, enduring brutal interrogation sessions at the hands of a man he knows only by his smell: Rosewater. Bahari later reveals he was not imprisoned because of the TV show interview, but because his captors wanted an excuse to lock him up.

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Rosewater.

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  Gael García Bernal

  Coco, Letters to Juliet

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  Shohreh Aghdashloo

  ... Moloojoon

  The Penguin (series), Damsel

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  Golshifteh Farahani

  Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Extraction

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  Dimitri Leonidas

  ... Davood

  Those About to Die (series), American Renegades

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  Haluk Bilginer

  ... Baba Akbar

  Maria, Halloween

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  Andrew Gower

  ... Jimmy the avid editor

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  Nasser Faris

  ... Haj Agha

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  Arian Moayed

  ... Hamid

  House of Spoils, Retribution

Crew Behind the Film

The Rosewater behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director Jon Stewart last directed Irresistible.

Director

Jon Stewart

Screenwriter

Jon Stewart

Producers

Gigi Pritzker
Scott Rudin
Jon Stewart

Additional Information

All Trailers

Official Rosewater movie trailers and clips.

Production Details

What we know about the Rosewater movie production.

Key Facts

• The film is budgeted at between $30-$40 million.
• Adaptation of the 2011 book "And Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival" by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy. True story.

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