Overview

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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Cast

Gael García Bernal

Maziar Bahari

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Moloojoon

Kim Bodnia

Javadi (Rosewater)

Claire Foy

Paola

Haluk Bilginer

Baba Akbar

Golshifteh Farahani

Maryam

Nasser Faris

Haj Agha

Dimitri Leonidas

Davood

Amir El-Masry

Alireza

Arian Moayed

Hamid

Numan Acar

Rahim

Andrew Gower

Jimmy the avid editor